{"id":131649,"date":"2015-07-21T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.austincnm.com\/?p=131649"},"modified":"2015-07-21T12:24:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T17:24:20","slug":"the-hidden-sweetness-of-marriage-humanum-part-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/the-hidden-sweetness-of-marriage-humanum-part-four\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Sweetness of Marriage (Review: Humanum Series, Part Four)"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Marriage is hard.” I don’t quite know when it happened, but at some point, that became a movement. I’ve never been married, but from what I understand, it is, in fact, hard. The problem is that marriage is apparently so hard, and the “marriage is hard” movement so strong, that marriage now seems too<\/em> hard. Tucked underneath the political frenzy over same-sex marriage is the reality that marriage itself isn’t as popular as it once was. I don’t need to list statistics to convince you of that.<\/p>\n

I’ve written here before about the Humanum Colloquium, held last fall in Rome. Humanum<\/a> was a gathering of experts from a variety of world religions and Christian traditions, along with philosophy, to argue in favor of marriage between one man and one woman in a complementary, lifelong, life-giving union. Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks spoke about seven critical moments in the development of marriage and the family. His speech is riveting; I loved it, and I wrote a response here at Austin CNM<\/a>. But it wasn’t until recent weeks that I watched the series of six short films produced by Humanum, and once again, I was blown away.<\/p>\n

I recommend them all, but my favorite was Part 4, “A Hidden Sweetness: The Power of Marriage Amid Hardship.”<\/p>\n