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God Is Love: Understanding Benedict XVI’s First Encyclical is unavailable, but you can change that!

“We have come to believe in God’s love; in these words the Christian can express the fundamental decision of his life.” So begins the first encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est. To help every Catholic understand the content and significance of this first encyclical of our new pope, Jimmy Akin has constructed a guide covering both the issues surrounding the nature of a papal...

burden and to think of marriage as an institution that should last only as long as feelings of romance do. Once the spouses feel that they aren’t “getting something” out of the marriage, their obligation to each other ceases and they may divorce and go on their ways. This view of marriage does not see it as a commitment to another person and that person’s good but rather as a purely selfish thing. Our culture has also detached sex from marriage, with many people living together without making the
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