Marriage: The Project of Culture or Faith?
Marriage: The Project of Culture or Faith?

Summary/Abstract: For many years the Catholic Church has been analyzing and prognosticating the situation of marriage and family in the contemporary world. It was especially voiced in the statements of the Second Vatican Council and Blessed John Paul II. Those statements reveal light and shade of this fundamental relationship in social life. The characteristic feature of that analysis is a critical drawing of attention to the pressure the culture exerts on the way marriage and family are perceived. The culture, marked with characteristic traits of postmodernism (separation from objective truth and normativeness), is attempting to relativize the very concept of marriage as a random relationship. The expression of such an approach is the culture (ideology) of gender. The Catholic Church, in its teaching, explicitly reminds the truth about the marriage of a woman and a man, interpreted in the context of the Theology of Creation. In such a way it reveals the greatness and insufficiency of human love, juxtaposing it with God's absolute love. The invariable greatness of the marriage of a woman and a man is inscribed in the dialog with God, which defines the framework of the Christian humanism.

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