(SHNS) Terry Mattingly—A proposal for churches to cut ties to civil marriages

Posted by Kendall Harmon

If the American public is truly changing its mind on marriage, then author George Weigel believes it is time for Catholics to draw a bright red line between the state's secular ceremonies and the church's rites of Holy Matrimony.

At least, that's an option that Catholics, and by implication other religious traditionalists, must be willing to consider, according to the Ethics and Public Policy Center scholar, who is best known as the official biographer of the late Pope John Paul II.

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