The first and most basic moral criterion for the family of today—and of every day and age—is this: (1) the family must be rooted in the marriage of one man and one woman. This is clearly affirmed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church,
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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
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“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
― You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity.”
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Delicious Ambiguity.”
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