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Certainly, it is the place of the Vatican to make its views known on important moral issues like same-sex marriage. It is not, however, the Vatican’s role to try to exercise religious influence on the affairs of secular states...
Marriage, historically, straddles the boundary between politics and religion. It is by nature a religious institution sanctioned and administered by a secular political framework. With the passage of time, however, marriage has evolved to live a double life. On the one hand, it is a religious affair, with different churches conducting marriage ceremonies in places of worship conducted by ordained clergy. On the other hand, however, it is a civic institution, with states registering marriages in secular ceremonies held in courthouses presided over by civic officials. The Vatican has always exercised spiritual sovereignty over the religious institution of marriage within...
...church alone. The parallel debate on civil same-sex marriage is, however, an issue for everyone. The Vatican is clearly perturbed by Spain’s tentative steps towards legalizing same-sex marriage. While it is its right to disagree with the Spanish government, when it comes to secular issues like this one, it is the Vatican’s responsibility to keep that disagreement to itself...
...Palindromes” goes beyond the bounds of Solondz’s past tales of suburban dystopia, as its narrative sets up, according to Solondz, “a structure of a Jewish liberal secular family and a conservative Christian one; those are such poles apart that to throw into relief the moral dimensions of some of these convictions that we stand by and what it really means...
...small Church, preferring a small church of true believers to a larger one whose numbers are swelled by people he would not see as good Catholics. Benedict XVI has previously argued that it is not unhealthy for church to be a counter culture rather than a dominant player in secular Western society. He's willing to see it play the role of an oppositional minority to a cultural drift he sees at odds with Church teachings...