The Sanctity of Marriage: We Are Left to Battle Paganism On Our Own
- Date Preached: 2012-01-22
- Sermon length: 38 minutes 42 seconds
- File size: 8.9 MB
- Download Link: http://www.AudioSancto.org/auweb/20120122-The-Sanctity-of-Marriage-We-Are-Left-to-Battle-Paganism-On-Our-Own.mp3
Significant quotes from this sermon:
Since a week ago last Saturday, we can no longer expect them to defend the law of God. These sects will work out the very logic of their ways, and in 50 or 100 years there will be only the [Catholic] Church and paganism. We will be left to fight the battle alone, and we will.
--Then-father Fulton J. Sheen, March 1931, reacting to the United States Federal Council of Churches of Christ endorsement of the use contraception by married couples
Is it imperative that the entire Catholic community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the Church's public moral witness presented by a radical secularism which finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres. The seriousness of these threats needs to be clearly appreciated at every level of ecclesial life.
--Pope Benedict 16th, January 19, 2012, to the Archbishop of Washington DC and the bishops of the surrounding areas