Monsignor Pope Ping!
What is seen in society now is a catastrophic failure of primary Virtues,
Gratitude, Humility, Prudence, Fortitude, Courage, Justice,
Temperance, Chastity, Charity, Patience, Kindness, Honor...
They are progressively being ignored as unimportant
The children are being taught instead the false gods of “values”
The consequences of this are seen everywhere.
I am not Catholic, but I am a big fan of Leo XIII. He should be more widely read.
“Now, since the family and human society at large spring from marriage, these men will on no account allow matrimony to be the subject of the jurisdiction of the Church. Nay, they endeavor to deprive it of all holiness, and so bring it within the contracted sphere of those rights which, having been instituted by man, are ruled and administered by the civil jurisprudence of the community. Wherefore it necessarily follows that they attribute all power over marriage to civil rulers, and allow none whatever to the Church; and, when the Church exercises any such power, they think that she acts either by favor of the civil authority or to its injury. Now is the time, they say, for the heads of the State to vindicate their rights unflinchingly, and to do their best to settle all that relates to marriage according as to them seems good.”
—Pope Leo XIII, from Arcanum
To the state in the modern era, marriage is simply whatever judges, pols, or the voting majority thinks it is at any one time. Hard to say what the state will define as marriage in another 140 years.
Freegards