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Navigating Options When Experiencing Domestic Abuse

Navigating Options When Experiencing Domestic Abuse

For Catholics, addressing issues of domestic abuse and navigating their options can feel especially challenging because of our teaching on the sacramentality of marriage.  When we look to the Church’s teaching on the Sacrament of Marriage, it clearly explains the reason our Catholic faith holds such a strict view of marriage and its indissolubility.

What is a Secure Attachment in a Healthy Relationship?

What is a Secure Attachment in a Healthy Relationship?

Our Catholic faith teaches us that marriage is a Sacrament, meaning that there is actual grace in a Sacramental marriage.  This grace is what assists husbands and wives to live out marriage joyfully, sacrificially, and lovingly.  However, we are still Fallen creatures so even with the grace present in a Sacramental marriage we suffer from concupiscence, the propensity towards selfishness and sin, which causes us to wound each other.

But How Can You Respect a Man When…?

In a previous article, I made the point that women need to respect men for who they are and not wait until they “earn it”.  A question posed to me in reply is a good one and worthy of consideration.  How do you respect a man who, by his own actions, or serious omissions, has lost your respect, or worse, earned your disrespect?  

Marriage Is A School of Sacrificial Love

Marriage Is A School of Sacrificial Love

One of the many blessings that flow from the Catholic Church’s unswerving stance against divorce – or better, for the permanence of marriage – is that the Catholic theology of marriage has a depth and richness rarely found in Protestant thought, and wholly foreign to secular thought.