It is a good post. Read it all here.Proposal: So the bottom line is that what the secular world means by the word “marriage” is not even close to what the Church means. The secular world excluded every aspect of what the Church means by marriage. Is it time for us to accept this and start using a different word? Perhaps it is and I would like to propose what I did back in March of 2010, that we return to an older term and hear what you think. I propose that we should exclusively refer to marriage in the Church as “Holy Matrimony.”
According to this proposal the word marriage would be set aside and replaced by Holy Matrimony. It should be noticed that the Catechism of the Catholic Church refers to this Sacrament formally as “The Sacrament of Matrimony.”
A secondary but related proposal is that we begin to consider getting out of the business of having our clergy act as civil magistrates in weddings. Right now we clergy in most of America sign the civil license and act, as such, as partners with the State. But with increasing States interpreting marriage so differently, can we really say we are partners? Should we even give the impression of credibility to the State’s increasingly meaningless piece of paper? It may remain the case that the Catholic faithful, for legal and tax reasons may need to get a civil license, but why should clergy have anything to do with it?
Commentary. I agree with Monsignor Pope. Malignant entities in academia, the cultural elites, and politics are hell-bent on expelling the Church from the public arena aby maneuvering Christian believers into untennable positions. We are being forced to choose between their way or the highway.
Tell you what. They have redefined marriage into nothingness. They want it? They can keep it. Let's nurture HOLY MATRIMONY and rebuild our society and culture by rebuilding what this Holy Sacrament is supposed to be.
I am going to change my category tag "Defense of Marriage" to "Defense of Matrimony" shortly.