Well, it's been a hell of a ride, laying rubber all over the road for the past decade. But it's time to call it a day and park the Rogue in the garage. Effective today, I am shutting down my blog to focus my attention on other endeavours. My thanks to the more than 2.7 million people who regularly joined me on these sojourns through news stories over the years that dealt with the places with issues of religion and faith intersecting with public affairs. May God bless you with a continuing desire to learn about and help disseminate the issues of faith throughout the public square. Happy trails in your continuing travels! Fr. Tim Moyle, p.p. Diocese of Pembroke
Reflections from the pastoral ministry of an Evangelical Catholic Priest.
" "I, ______, take you, ______, to be my wife/husband. I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you and honor you all the days of my life."
ReplyDeleteThe Catholic marriage ceremony and that of many other denominations and religions focuses on the support two spouses have for each other. They are two people who have promised publicly to support and love the other person in good times and in bad. There is no talk of sex despite its importance to the theologians and indeed one thing one learns from being married is that sex is good but loving someone and committing to someone is much better.
Indeed if you took the theologians at their word a couple who separated and then moved on to a subsequent relationships where the new partners lived their vows of supporting the new partner as above but didn't engage in sex would be okay. The theologians need to tone down the sexual obsession and realize that marriages are 95% (or so) non sexual and 5% sexual (or so).