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Catholic for a Reason IV: Scripture and the Mystery of Marriage and Family Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

Marriage and family life lived according to God’s plan can change lives—and the world! Catholic for a Reason IV explores the scriptural basis for the Catholic understanding of marriage. Join Scott and Kimberly Hahn, Mike Aquilina, and 10 other well-known Catholic authors—along with their spouses—as they bear solid biblical testimony to the joys, struggles, and sanctity found in the sacrament of...

desires and pleasurable feelings in a relationship that he is not truly able to seek the woman’s good for her own sake. This is why the Pope emphasizes that “eros needs to be disciplined and purified if it is to provide not just fleeting pleasure, but a certain foretaste … of that beatitude for which our whole being yearns” (no. 4). Here we come to the heart of Pope Benedict’s teaching on human love. He tells us that eros must be healed if it is to mature and develop into
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