Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
“The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision on marriage is not a surprise. The surprise will come as ordinary people begin to experience, firsthand and painfully, the impact of today’s action on everything they thought they knew about marriage, family life, our laws and our social institutions. The mistakes of the court change nothing about the nature of men and women, and the truth of God’s Word.
“The task now for believers is to form our own families even more deeply in the love of God, and to rebuild a healthy marriage culture, one marriage at a time, from the debris of today’s decision.”
(Read more about the ruling and reaction to it, including an analysis, in our National News section.)
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One cannot understand what’s going on in the world today if they have never read the book of Daniel, or studied
the history of the early Church in Rome. In both instances, the force of the secular government was used to impose
a non-realistic view on the populace. Reality is the first causality of the Will. Man was created with an Intellect to
guide his actions. Thank God for the great thinkers of the Church. Truth and Goodness will triumph in the end.
for once he got it right but should also have made the statement that those that the court can’t make it NOT A SIN !!!!
I’m really happy about the Supreme Court ruling. I have always thought the laws prohibiting gay marriage would be treated by history the same way we view the old antimiscegenation laws. I think the Supreme Court ruling is the only one a civilized people could arrive at. Also, I think those who are worried and anxious about it will soon see that the sky has not fallen and that life goes on.