As the Anglican Bishop of Oxford, Steven Croft, makes the case for the Church of England allowing same-sex marriage, Father Dwight Longenecker, the acclaimed U.S. author and speaker, talks to Dr Gavin Ashenden about what is understood by marriage in the Catholic Church.

This 26th episode of Merely Catholic, the podcast series for the Catholic Herald, includes a searing sociological, philosophical and theological analysis of the problems inherent in trying to redefine an ancient institution and one which in the Catholic Church has been elevated to the status of a sacrament.
Their conclusions are stark and unambiguous and include the warning of the emergence of a “counterfeit faith”, even within the Catholic Church, which is intended to replace the Apostolic faith with something rather different.

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