Marriage and Society – Episode 5

Bio - Who is Dan?

The family might be the cornerstone of society, yet in our world today it is also threatened by the values of society itself. What are the threats to today’s Christian hope for the family? How can we as Christians defend ourselves against these threats?

We discuss these issues with Daniel Cere, the founder and director of the Institute for the Study of Marriage, Law, and Culture in Montréal, Quebec.

Daniel Cere, who teaches ethics at McGill University, is a major figure in Canadian scholarship and a consultant to several North American think-tanks. As the founder and director of the Institute for the Study of Marriage, Law, and Culture, a free-standing academic think-tank, he has become an important voice in the current same-sex marriage debate. Dan is also the co-editor of the 2004 book Divorcing Marriage, published by McGill Queens Press, that has recently been in the limelight of Canadian public debate.

• Have I been aware of the trends
  affecting the path of marriage?
  Read Familiaris Consortio, 6-7.
• How do the church and society
  suffer from marriage breakdown?
  Read the Charter of Rights of the Family,
  October 22, 1983.
• How can the path of marriage and family
  deterioration be stopped and reversed?
  Read Familiaris Consortio, 3, 9.
• What is the Catholic vision of the family for today?
  Read Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1655-1657.

• Catechism of the Catholic Church,
  Article 7: The Sacrament of Matrimony
• Apostolic Exhortation of John Paul II, Familiaris Consortio, November 22, 1981
• Encyclical of John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae, The Gospel of Life, March 25, 1995
• The Institute for the Study of Marriage, Law, and Culture where Daniel Cere, our guest for this episode of Vox Clara is Director. Check them out.
• And finally, be inspired by the Scriptures…
  Genesis 1:26-28; 2:16-17; 4:1
  Song of Songs – whole book!
  John 7:37-38
  Ephesians 5
  1 Timothy 6:12-14