Posted on 04/11/2016 5:54:23 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
The long awaited Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Laetita, is now out. As a lay Traditional Catholic with common sense, I will now lay out the reasons I found the exhortation an epic tragedy. Many of these reasons you will probably never hear from the Neo-Catholic pundits. I will first quote a selected portion of the exhortation in red, and then give my reaction. The number in parentheses is the paragraph in Amoris Laetita where the quote can be found. Predictably, I did not get past the first paragraph without spitting my coffee out.
As the Synod Fathers noted, for all the many signs of crisis in the institution of marriage, “the desire to marry and form a family remains vibrant, especially among young people, and this is an inspiration to the Church” (1)
Thus, the exhortation begins with a lie in the very first paragraph, lessening the credibility of anything that comes later. The headline of an article reporting on the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia as recently as September of 2015 read, “Fewer children born, fewer marriages, point to global changes afoot.”
Population researcher Andres Salazar of Colombia, representing the Western Hemisphere, followed Dumont with a review of worldwide marriage trends. He noted that two-partner families remain the worldwide majority, but overall marriage rates are declining worldwide and more couples have begun cohabitating.
The data from both Western Europe and Central and South America reveal the highest rates of cohabiting adults, with cohabitation rates of 10 to 15 percent worldwide; marriage rates range between 40 and 50 percent in Europe.
Even the non-Catholic, National Catholic Reporter stated a year ago:
The number of Catholic marriages in the United States is at its lowest point since 1965.
(Excerpt) Read more at remnantnewspaper.com ...
"This morning was my “big moment”.
I woke up at 4:50AM and dragged my tired, exhortation-weary self into the shower to get ready to go on national television for the first time. I was invited to go on Fox & Friends — “the most-watched program on cable television between 6am – 9am ET” — to talk about Amoris Laetitia. I had a scheduled “hit” at 7:40AM, and they were sending a car for me at 6AM to take me to DC.
I got dressed. I had my coffee. I said my morning prayers. The car showed up early, the black Lincoln barely visible in the pre-dawn driveway of my rural home..."
My Followup to the Fox & Friends Interview and Amoris Laetitia
The level of marriage, period, is at its lowest level, for two major reasons:
1) Why marry, when there are women willing to have sex with you without marriage?
2) Marriage, after feminist-promoted changes to family law and divorce law, is a bad deal for most men these days. A woman can decide she's unhaaaapy, and file for divorce for cash and prizes. She gets the house, the assets, a big chunk of husband's future income, and the kids. Why should a man take the risk?
True.
I think many of us used to date her. :)
That’s all true from our, the male, point of view. But I suspect it’s even worse for women. From the sixties on, about fifty years now, they’ve been told that for them marriage is slavery, children are burdens, men are nothing but rapists, but paradoxically their greatest fulfillment will come from imitating those very same creatures by abandoning all the simple human pleasures to build a career. The psychotics who successfully promulgated all this are like the rats who spread their fleas and the black death through Europe, the main difference being the victims are still breathing and only (?) spiritually dead.
The real “monster” at the end of the Book.....
Revelation 22
18 For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book;
19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Nelson, Thomas (2009-02-18). Holy Bible, New King James Version (NKJV) (p. 1202). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.
The “Catholic” version:
18 I warn everyone who hears the prophetic words in this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book,
19 and if anyone takes away from the words in this prophetic book, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city described in this book.
http://www.usccb.org/bible/revelation/22
Was not the title of this “document” means in Latin “Love of Family” ?
The main winners of the current system are the "alpha males", the charming, handsome, witty top 10% of the male population who have young attractive women hopping into bed with them without requirement of marriage.
The current system allows women access to desirable men who would NEVER have looked at them if they couldn't get "no-strings" sex from them. It allows women to delude themselves as to their actual worth in the sexual marketplace.
Then, when the women who were chasing the "alpha males" in their 20's find themselves hitting 30, unmarried and childless, they suddenly decide to "settle" for a "beta male" to provide them with marriage (and perhaps to help the single moms raise the kids they had with the alphas in their youth). They then find a scarcity of men willing to put a ring on their high-mileage bodies, and outraged that their past should be held relevant.
Your comments about divorce do not in fact reflect dissolution law in the states.
The reason folks aren’t getting married is because they are not religious. Marriage is seen as a religious ceremony ( which of course it is). There is no tax benefit and non religious folks don’t care about it.
:)
His first point is that the Pope “lied” when he said that most people still want to marry... I have to disagree here with the author of the article: I believe most people do want to marry, but have been given a lousy, rotten social structure by which to do that (dating includes premarital sex, etc), as well as difficulties like the high price of getting to a marriageable state, and the consequences of “failure” through no-fault divorce.
The article went on in this way for a while, so I stopped reading it.
And yet... strangely appropriate.
Wow, that's a compelling insight right there. Knowing a little about human behavior I'd say it is spot on.
It all boils down to women lying to themselves.
"Was not the title of this “document” means in Latin “Love of Family” ? - Biggirl
It is titled “Amoris Laetitia,” Latin for “The Joy of Love.”
When I first saw the translation, given this pope's extreme left 'principles', the translation appeared to be mocking tradition with a play on words/translation-fog because of another 'best selling' book's title ...here
Women want to marry "Prince Charming" (or win "Mr Big", as in "Sex and the City"). They spend their 20's hopping from one Prince's bed to another, in the vain hope of getting a ring from a guy who is out of their league (as far as marriage or commitment is concerned, but not as far as no-strings sex).
A man want to marry a woman who loves him, not a woman who decided to "settle" for him after a decade or so of bed-hopping, and who will unfavorably compare him to past lovers, and resent him for not being like the "alpha males" of her youth. He wants to marry a woman who will have sex with him on a reasonably frequent basis, not miserly dole out access to her vagina once the wedding is over.
Blah blah blah The pope knows nothing of catholicism like i do. The pope is a crazy communist. The pope is a loser. The pope blasphemes God.
Such love.
“Jesus wept” Luke 19:41
On Spanish blogs, I have seen it referred to as “Amores de Letizia,” because of its overblown, sentimental tone and its barely disguised fascination with sex.
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