USA - redefinition of marriage to include same-sex couples

Something Borrowed, Nothing New:

 The Assaults on Marriage

By Denise Hunnell, M.D.

In light of the recent United States Supreme Court decision that enabled the redefinition of marriage to include same-sex couples, it is helpful to consider the words of the Holy Father:

These many and glorious fruits were ever the product of marriage, so long as it retained those gifts of holiness, unity, and indissolubility from which proceeded all its fertile and saving power; nor can anyone doubt but that it would always have brought forth such fruits, at all times and in all places, had it been under the power and guardianship of the Church, the trustworthy preserver and protector of these gifts. But, now, there is a spreading wish to supplant natural and divine law by human law; and hence has begun a gradual extinction of that most excellent ideal of marriage which nature herself had impressed on the soul of man, and sealed, as it were, with her own seal…There exists not, indeed, in the projects and enactments of men any power to change the character and tendency with things have received from nature. Those men, therefore, show but little wisdom in the idea they have formed of the well-being of the commonwealth who think that the inherent character of marriage can be perverted with impunity.

While these words are as applicable today as they were the day they were written, they are not the words of Pope Francis, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope John Paul II, or even Pope Paul VI. They are from Pope Leo XIII’s 1880 encyclical Arcanum, written in response to the increasing ease and acceptance of divorce in European countries.

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