In one of his informative dispatches from Rome during the Synod on the Family last fall, Robert Royal remarked with regret on the extent to which the synod fathers appeared to have taken their prescriptions for families from a secular playbook instead of from their own Catholic tradition.
Most synod participants, Royal wrote, "seemed to look at problems of marriage and family from the kind of thin rationalist standpoint of politicians in democratic countries....That shallow rationalism is precisely what gave us contraception, abortion, no-fault divorce, gay marriage, and much else that threatens the future of our societies."
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