Reply #78: A "marriage" class [View All]

[MaineDem]

I remember something in high school - maybe during a retreat - where we had a priest, a Jesuit, talk to us about marriage and family. I thought at the time "how could he even begin to know?" but we listened like we were expected to do. Not long after that he left the priesthood and married an ex-nun.

The last time I went to Mass, probably last winter, the homily was about having children and how if you don't have children you're somehow a lesser person. Honestly! I sat there, married for 29 years and childless, fuming more and more as he droned on. He has no idea why people have no children. How dare he make pronouncemnts like that. And, strictly speaking, was he considering himself in that mix? I don't understand his logic and I'm not anxious to go back and be berated like that again. That's the kind of attitude that makes me question the whole religion at times.