The Vatican is launching a research project on the family to be carried out by Catholic universities around the world. https://t.co/LB1HIuXMxt
— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) August 6, 2021
VATICAN— Holy See releases statement on creation of a “Catholic Global Compact on the Family”, intent on gathering research on the “social value” of the family in society. pic.twitter.com/eOsHI6Jyni
— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) August 6, 2021
“When you think about farming through story, you begin to think about the conversation that began before you were here. I can’t conceptualize my life on our farm with my family without a sense of story." https://t.co/Zn6UWNzjdx
— Civil Eats (@CivilEats) June 6, 2021
Love. The thing you don't understand is called love. https://t.co/ozY50Qa49o
— Ramesh Ponnuru (@RameshPonnuru) December 2, 2020
"Marriage is not only what we make of it."@DrScottHahn debuts in Plough:https://t.co/dnpzGo3Q7q
— Plough Quarterly (@Plough) December 3, 2020
Friends, please join me, @roddreher, @WilcoxNMP and others for an @amconmag/@approject/@TheBruderhof conference tomorrow on why and how to strengthen the American family.
— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) October 13, 2020
Zoom registration details at the link.https://t.co/TJ5hVKGBMt
Join us Tues. Aug 4th, at noon PT for a webinar featuring Dr. Brad Wilcox, Director of the National Marriage Project. and a discussion about the role of marriage in free enterprise, wealth accumulation, and happiness. https://t.co/FVolQdk1U0
— Discovery Institute (@DiscoveryInst1) July 16, 2020
"In most marriages, knowing that you and your spouse are deeply committed to one another [...] fosters many other marital goods: more trust, more emotional security [...] more fidelity, and a clearer vision for a joint future." @FamStudies https://t.co/xrH19azbxR
— NC Family (@ncfamilyorg) May 20, 2020
Of course, every husband, as the servant-head, should always be seeking the input of his wife in the decision-making processes, which should always be decidedly mutual, with decisions being reached virtually always by consensus. Similarly, the husband should also be steadily encouraging his wife to contribute greatly to the marital enterprise as a whole, with all her particular strengths and gifts as well.
So it is of paramount importance for everyone to know and remember that this role of male headship, especially in marriage, is meant to be fulfilled with a deep sense and vision of self-sacrificial servanthood. This requires the husband in a real sense to always be laying down his life for his wife and children, which means very often putting their needs and desires ahead of his own, or in place of his own.
At a conference I attended recently (convened to address contemporary challenges to Christian culture) one speaker faced head-on a central problem with Christian responses to our secular culture: As a rule, we do not have enough children and we do not teach them from a young age their essential familial roles as male breadwinners and female nurturers. For any Catholic, and any Christian who has taken the time to understand the fundamentals of our beliefs and traditions, it is undeniable that the sexes are different and are by nature suited to different roles within the fundamental unit of society, namely, the natural family. The vast majority of thinking Christians know this while the vast majority of secular Westerners reject it as a matter of unthinking ideological prejudice, so there really is no sense at this late date in attempting to argue over it. This is at the root of Rod Dreher’s “Benedict Option” proposal for Christians to concentrate their efforts on rebuilding faithful communities in the face of the cultural aggression of our public institutions.
