We need our Holy Father and others to demonstrate an acutely improved understanding of God's gift of authentic marriage/family

By Joe Tevington

03/03/2024 • View profile

We need our Holy Father and others to demonstrate an acutely improved understanding of God's gift of authentic marriage/family

It is not income inequality or race or school quality, but the amount of kids living in single parent families that best predicts whether a poor kid will be a poor adult!

The 1970s saw dramatic increases in the divorce rate and single parenthood. Along with the heinous Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision was a dramatic downturn in the marriage rate. We are still victimized by that time period with some failing to even realize the abusive impact that divorce has on children!

We have a vested interest in revitalizing marriage and family life, but it often seems that our Pope and many other Catholic leaders are instead obsessed with normalizing domestic situations that we were always told ran contrary to God's will - to say nothing of the detriment to those involved.

We need our Holy Father and others to demonstrate an acutely improved understanding of God's gift of authentic marriage/family (cf, Get Married, 2/14/24).

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About the Author

Joe Tevington

Joe Tevington is a proudly orthodox Catholic, a husband since 1986, a dad to two adult children, a grandpa to two, and a civil service retiree. He is a sign language fluent certified rehabilitation counselor with graduate degrees in deafness rehabilitation, religious studies/moral theology, & Christian counseling psychology, as well as a catechetical diploma and certificates in benefits planning and Catholic social ministry. He deeply appreciates Catholic teaching on the sanctity of human life and the sanctity of the transmission of human life, as well as how they are to inform us in our apostolates and ministries.

On much lighter notes, he fancies himself to be the foremost authority on his native Brooklyn, when it comes to architecture, cinema, geography, history, Italian food, stick ball, stoop ball, or wiffle ball.

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