Angelus Jul-Aug 2014 magazine

Click here to subscribe to The Angelus Click here to view free articles Theme: Marriage Articles: Letter from the Publisher, Fr. Jürgen Wegner Theme: Marriage The Controversy over Marriage Vows, Fr. Dominique Bourmaud, SSPX Marriage and the State of Perfection, Compiled by the Angelus editors Rites of Matrimony Past and Present, Fr. Christopher Danel, SSPX Christian Marriage, Guarantee of the Dignity of the Woman, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre from Against the Heresies Faith and Morals Law and Marriage Go Together, Brian McCall, J.D. H The Basis of a Happy Wedlock, Pius XI, from Casti Connubii Spirituality Male and Female He Created Them, Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX How to Have a Happy Marriage, SSPX Priests Christian Culture Education: A Magnanimous Man!, Brian McCall, J.D. History: Innocent III, Marriage, and Militant Christendom, Dr. John Rao Liturgy: No Light from the Orthodox East on Christian Marriages, Gabriel S. Sanchez, J.D. Family Life: Confirmation before Marriage, Michael J. Rayes Questions and Answers The Synod on the Family has been in the news now for months. But is this the first Synod of its kind? Or has there been some history behind it? What is the theological value of this meeting? Does it qualify as a magisterial act of the Church? What is the forecast regarding this coming Synod? We have already dealt extensively on the first problem of Communion for remarried divorcees in articles of this issue. The second is certainly a mine field. What about the third issue? What are we talking about when we speak of the natural law? Instrumentum Laboris proposes to improve the language traditionally used in explaining 'Natural Law'. What are we to think of this project of the October Synod? From the statements of these recent popes, it seems as if the natural law is a fixed item in the Church's teaching, not an object of "manipulation," to use the words of the late Pope? Should we repeat our prayer intentions each time we recite the Rosary? Church and World United States: Black Mass at Harvard Canceled On the Ecumenical Meeting between Pope Francis and the Patriarch Bartholomew United States: An increasingly Hispanic Catholic Church Theological Studies What God Has Joined, Roberto de Mattei Letters to the Editor The Last Word, Father Daniel Couture, SSPX