Cardinal Müller: Attacks on Marriage Are a ‘Suicide of Humanity’

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In an exclusive Register interview, the senior Vatican official discusses contemporary threats to marriage and how to strengthen this human institution.

Nice interview with Cardinal Müller. Some good quotes:
The family is not an isolated thing. It belongs to the wider family, to its own people, history, region and culture. This underlines that we are not isolated individuals, but created by God as beings who live together; and we have responsibility for the other by taking responsibility for the lives of future generations. I cannot say I have an autonomous personality — I must give thanks for all these people who gave so much of themselves for me: my parents, my brothers and sisters, relatives, teachers and pastors. One theme to which many testified during the colloquium was a clear emphasis that we have received and we must, in turn, give back to the other generations, to other people.
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The way the family is undervalued or threatened in many places is akin to standing on a precipice; we must stop and not make that final step from which there is no return. In attacks against marriage as a complementary union of man and woman, we are seeing a kind of suicide of humanity itself, especially in the secularized West — in Europe, the United States, North America. The difference between man and woman is a positive reality because it reflects the will of God in creation, and the will of God is good and aimed at human flourishing!
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The silent majority up to now didn’t understand what was happening in society or have been silenced by the use of the word “discrimination” applied to those who want to defend the traditional family. But we cannot say the basic relation of man and woman is only a cultural or social product, a “gift” of a government or a construct of man, but it is, rather, a basis. Similarly, personal dignity and freedom are not cultural and social products, but are written into our very nature as men and women created in God’s image, as is the existence of man and woman in matrimony.
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Children, too, are not a product of society or only an object of the state, of government. Governments cannot supplant the primordial responsibility of parents for their children nor deny children their right to grow up with a mother and a father.
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If matrimony is a common good for mankind (we have our theory of natural law, which is given by God), it’s helpful to have contact with other Christian confessions, other denominations and other religions. Together we can demonstrate that matrimony is not only a preoccupation of the Catholic Church, but a profoundly human project, a great gift for all mankind.
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Read more: ncregister.com/daily-news/cardinal-mueller-attacks-on-marriage-are-a-suicide-of-humanity/#ixzz3JYBtYky9
 
We need a voucher education system to keep Catholic schools in place to protect efforts of good mothers and fathers. It is tough for prospective couples to envision a future of goodness for children in public schools. Most can barely afford school taxes.
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The situation looks grim.

I know this is not a platform to promote voucher education system. Couples look at the long haul starting with hospital costs of birthing. It is outrageous today!
…just saying that couples are probably discouraged by the cost of becoming and being a family.
 
Here’s another excellent interview with Card Muller. It’s on a similar topic so I’ll post it here:

zenit.org/en/articles/cardinal-muller-as-a-future-oriented-people-we-must-give-hope

Cardinal Muller: As a Future-Oriented People, We Must Give Hope

Pope Francis Is Affirming Importance of Matrimony, Family for All Mankind, Says CDF Prefect

Vatican City, November 20, 2014 (Zenit.org) Deborah Castellano Lubov | 99 hits

The prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith says matrimony isn’t only a reality which plays a role in the Catholic Church and life, but also is important for all mankind.

In an interview with ZENIT this week in the Vatican, Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller explains why marriage and the family must be bolstered and how the Vatican, along with various other faiths, is actively doing so, and how witnessing the different faiths affirm marriage together is like a Pentecostal miracle.

While saying how the Holy Father is committed to supporting the family, the top Vatican official also reflected on the International Colloquium on the Complementarity of Man and Woman, taking place in the Vatican, Nov. 17 -19, its goals, and whether it’s related to the Synod of Bishops on the Family.

Cardinal Müller spoke to ZENIT on the sidelines of the three-day conference which ended Wednesday and was sponsored by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and co-sponsored by the Pontifical Council for the Family, the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, and
 the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity.

(Read the interview there)
 
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I simply cannot understand what he is talking about. I think some evidence is in order if he is making such a sweeping, chicken little-esque statement. Massachusettes was the first state to recognize same sex marriage, we also have the lowest divorce rate. The bible belt has the highest divorce rate in the country.

nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/States-That-Allow-Same-Sex-Marriage-Have-Lower-Divorce-Rates-213335351.html
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Since the Catholic church has ascertained there is no such thing as same-sex “marriage” the question is, what are you talking about?
 
Tigg said:
Since the Catholic church has ascertained there is no such thing as same-sex “marriage” the question is, what are you talking about?
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If there is no such thing as same sex marriage than what is he and other same sex marriage opponents worried about? There’s no such things as goblins so I’m not at all worried about a goblin take over.

If he is claiming that “attacks on marriage” are a “suicide of humanity” then there should be some evidence that it is causing real harm to socieity. He is not talking about metaphysics or theology but sociology, which should be measurable. I haven’t seen any evidence of it at all.
 
The attack on marriage largely began with the widespread acceptance of artificial contraception followed by the sexual revolution. For a detailed review of the adverse effects which have already happened, I recommend Mary Eberstadt’s book: “Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution.”
 
From the Cardinal’s interview:

“The way the family is undervalued or threatened in many places is akin to standing on a precipice; we must stop and not make that final step from which there is no return. In attacks against marriage as a complementary union of man and woman, we are seeing a kind of suicide of humanity itself, especially in the secularized West — in Europe, the United States, North America. The difference between man and woman is a positive reality because it reflects the will of God in creation, and the will of God is good and aimed at human flourishing!”
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But of course family disintegration did not and does not begin with gay marriage. It begins with contraception, delinking children from marriage, and continues with divorce, cohabitation, extramarital sex, and fatherless families leading directly to poverty.
 
JimG said:
But of course family disintegration did not and does not begin with gay marriage. It begins with contraception, delinking children from marriage, and continues with divorce, cohabitation, extramarital sex, and fatherless families leading directly to poverty.
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I am a firm believer the Holy Spirit has let this be known.

Once procreation was effectively (philosophically and physically) removed as a good of the sexual act; more distortions would continue to manifest. More will.
 
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