Ping!
I wonder why Father Cutie imagines that married people have true intimacy in their lives.
We have long known that respect for celibacy and respect for married sexual goodness go up or down in tendem. When Marriage is revered, celibacy is revered. When marriage is seen as extraneous or absurd, celibacy is likewise seen as extraneous and absurd. Holy Matrimony and Holy Celibacy advance or decline hand-in-hand in the larger culture.
But why? I think part of it is because they are both holy because wholly "whole." Both are passionate, total commitments. There is no fragmentation. You either conduct your sexual love "wholly," with every bit of it intact--- romance, affection, fertility, consecrated union, fidelity, permanence --- or you abstain from it wholly in whole-hearted celibate consecrated life.
A society which respects "wholeness" respects marriage and celibacy.
A society which is splitting and deconstructing everything into parts and pieces, doesn't see the sense of either. These are the socials movement and forces that want to smash marriage, smash cilibacy, smash or mash together everyhing about sex and gender, pick out the glittery bits they like and dump the rest in the trash.
The Japanese will beat us to extinction. The winners!!