Bishop Robert Barron on Healing Long-lasting Angers of Any Kind, Friendships, Family Members…

And Trent Horn and Leila Miller on the Uncanny Similarities Between Abortion and Divorce.

Adultery is bad. Divorce, which only rarely can be healed, is worse.

Leila Miller:

Yeah, absolutely. It’s the death of a family isn’t as grave as a murder of a person, but it is still the death of a family, which is –

Trent Horn:

So, we’ll start right. The similarities between divorce and abortion and the similarities between the responses, that it is a kind of killing. You’re killing this marital life that existed, this bond that exists between men and women, that you try to sever. I mean, we can’t really sever it.

Leila Miller:

Right. It’s an attempt to sever it and-

Trent Horn:

But it has real effects.

Leila Miller:

It has real effects, and actually, one child of divorce had written an article a long time ago, and I didn’t put this in my article, but she talked about the one flesh union of man and woman. You could think of it even as a mother and a child. I mean, the flesh is together. When you have a baby in your womb, your flesh on flesh, this is a baby actually attached to your flesh. Then, of course, Christ said marriage is a one flesh union. So anytime you’re ripping that living flesh apart, something is dying. I mean, something pretty serious is being lost.

Trent Horn:

Yes, because we think about divorce, it’s always so antiseptic. Divorce is just filling out paperwork.

Listen to the entire episode here

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She Carries the Future

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It is, rather, because, in her mystery, woman carries the future. She is that sacred gift who sustains a people and life itself …. Continue

“Love in practice is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.”— Dorothy Day, quoting Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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