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Men Are More Disinclined to Marry Than Ever – A Reflection on a Serious Problem
Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 10-11-15 | Msgr. Charles Pope

Posted on 10/12/2015 8:32:47 AM PDT by Salvation

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1 posted on 10/12/2015 8:32:47 AM PDT by Salvation
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To: nickcarraway; NYer; ELS; Pyro7480; livius; ArrogantBustard; Catholicguy; RobbyS; marshmallow; ...
The bottom line is, it’s never good for anyone, or for civilization as a whole, when huge numbers opt out of or find no access to our most fundamental building block: the traditional family. We must save traditional marriage if we stand any chance of saving our dying civilization.

Monsignor Pope Ping!

2 posted on 10/12/2015 8:37:20 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

My son was dear johned during his second Afghan deployment. Needless to say he is done looking. He said if it happens it will, but he has stopped looking and is actually living the dream. Piece of land, a dog, some horses and cattle, good job and do whatever/go wherever he wants. I know he wants a family but the cheating beyotch he was married to burned him.


3 posted on 10/12/2015 8:39:06 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Salvation

Netflix has a documentary called DIVORCE CORP. Good summary of the anti-male divorce laws in this country and the fallout.

Sex is easy to get these days. Women will sleep with men as readily as men. Kids are costly. Marriage is a terrible bet. The media glorifies single moms and bastard kids.

So the wonderful solution of the secular west is to bring in... immigrants to prevent population implosion.

Also, watch the first five or ten minutes of IDIOCRACY. Good summary of what’s going on!


4 posted on 10/12/2015 8:39:07 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: All

Great video BTW — your laugh for the day.


5 posted on 10/12/2015 8:39:41 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

For the first time in history, the number of women in the workplace has exceeded the number of men?

Gents, what’s the excuse? Explanation?


6 posted on 10/12/2015 8:40:16 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Salvation

I’ll read it, but just from the headline, c pope or not, why would a man want to get married when a girl will act married without the commitment? Why wouldn’t a normal guy in high school go out with the girl who practices birth control and dump the nice girl?

After marriage, what is marriage when the woman is practicing birth control? It’s friends with benefits to the guy

Anywhere I look women are raising kids alone.

Tgis started in 1973 and it will continue to get worse until and only until women and high school girls wise up and stop putting out

Ps men are no better off in this confused state, but they are programmed to say yes every time


7 posted on 10/12/2015 8:41:32 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Salvation
I'm responding only to the headline

I haven't read a thing ....

Younger people don't go to church
(anyone's guess and a million reasons why not ... it doesn't matter)

Church is where proper and spiritual moral values are (supposed) to taught and WITNESSED (because of adult example)

The adults that ARE in church too often look no different than going shopping ... except maybe pressed and a little cleaner


Bottom line;

No one's teaching, No one learns.


The female has ALWAYS been the mysterious one, but not anymore, so there's no intrigue to chase and hunt (sorry for the metaphore)

It's a viscious spiral down ... women don't morally entice, men aren't that interested, women are taught to confuse sex with allurement, men lust, people hook up, but so do dogs


My two cent's worth (Isaiah ch 3 and others)

8 posted on 10/12/2015 8:43:14 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: 9YearLurker

Does that number include people who are self-employed?


9 posted on 10/12/2015 8:44:01 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: huldah1776

bmp4L8R


10 posted on 10/12/2015 8:45:08 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: stanne

From Bierce’s “Devil’s Dictionary” of more than a century ago:

Bridegroom, n: One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the plate.


11 posted on 10/12/2015 8:48:16 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Salvation

Msgr. Pope always reliably speaks truth. I’m surprised +Wuerl hasn’t shut him down.


12 posted on 10/12/2015 8:51:12 AM PDT by jtal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle ....)
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To: Salvation
Perhaps I'm out in left field here but perhaps this is a reason we suddenly see so many men wanting to become women. Men are essentially becoming emasculated and traditional "male" behavior is being discouraged in our schools. More and more, boys in school are expected to behave in a similar way to the girls. Even playful tussling in the schoolyard is now seen as "violent activity" that must not be tolerated.

Then many men who do attempt to marry and carry on a traditional family lifestyle is often cast as a patriarchal oppressor unless he is willing to do his share of the housework, baby raising, etc., all while encouraging his wife to find herself, whether it be in a career or just in the house. In other words, women have all the choices, the man must acquiesce to them, while still having the burden of bringing home the bacon.

Maybe that's why so many men just want to put on a dress and make their emasculation official.

13 posted on 10/12/2015 8:53:00 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (A businessman gets things done with own money. A politician takes money and gets nothing done.)
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To: Salvation

Risk losing everything you’ve worked for plus being order to paying child support for all most ever? No thanks.


14 posted on 10/12/2015 8:53:23 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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To: TigerClaws

I agree that the immigrants are being trafficked here to replace the missing generations of Americans, but I don’t think it is an unintended consequence. Our overlords want 0 population growth, and they are going to get it. Laws and policies can be changed to reverse this slide in marriages and birthrate in Americans; look at the immediate impact of the 1996 welfare reform among urban blacks - their birthrate fell quickly to one similar to whites. For all the ranting from Al Sharpton at the time (criticizing the view that blacks were dropping babies for freebies), the policy was vindicated by the immediate results. Today many formerly black areas in cities are teeming with Third Worlders imported to replace them.


15 posted on 10/12/2015 8:56:18 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Me

16 bit nintendo version of why getting married nowadays is a stupid idea for a man.

BTW, I’m happily married and have been for 17 years, together for over 20.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEVU-YLpM8A&feature=youtu.be&a


16 posted on 10/12/2015 8:56:31 AM PDT by Tailback
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To: 9YearLurker

It’s very simple - women and minorities have been getting preferential treatment for hiring and promotion over equally or more qualified men for many years in business and especially govt. jobs. I believe that a lot of men are working for themselves or are just off the radar all together. I don’t blame them at all. It’s another Leftie victory, IMHO. Just go to Lowe’s or Menards to see all the women working there, but when they need heavy lifting done, or answer a technical question, they are on their walkie talkies calling for a guy. Wrong, just wrong.


17 posted on 10/12/2015 8:56:56 AM PDT by Sioux-san
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To: Salvation

So young men prefer pornography to a REAL relationship with a women. Seems folks all want FaceBook friends and not real ones, text rather than talk to others....this is the age of “virtual” lives....sad, but true...to a point. When will they see how empty that life really is?


18 posted on 10/12/2015 8:57:26 AM PDT by tioga
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To: Salvation

I think economic factors are the primary cause.

Lack of good paying jobs with decent health benefits.

Many young people simply cannot afford homes or families these days.


19 posted on 10/12/2015 8:57:45 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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quote “In my mere 26 years of priesthood, I have seen the number of weddings I perform each year decrease from 35 to 5”

that’s more a reflection on the church than marriage.

I am in a business that deals with weddings almost exclusively, and the only difference I see is that most people are skipping having their ceremony at a church. This mainly a budget issue. Churches these days in our area charge $1,200-$1,500 for just a few hours for the ceremony.

Traditionally, if you were a member .. that was FREE.

When a young couple is looking for things to cut to save money, this is where they will cut.


20 posted on 10/12/2015 8:58:24 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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