You're listening to the SSPX podcast and welcome to episode 15 in our sacrament series and our second episode on matrimony.

Father Loop is back to see how a simple change in the understanding of the ends or purpose of marriage can have extraordinarily far-reaching and disastrous effects for couples, families, and even whole nations.

What happens when you switch the order of two of the purposes of marriage? and disastrous effects for couples, families, and even whole nations.

What happens when you switch the order of two of the purposes of marriage?

We'll see why this shift happened, what the reaction was, and how it actually caused Pope Paul

the Sixth to never want to write another encyclical.

But first, we'll start with the consequences and then work our way backwards. Can this simple change

explain the degradation of the modern family? We'll try next. If you like these series and want to

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Now, let's join Father Loop for episode number 15 of the Sacrament series right now.

Well, Father Loop, thank you for joining us again on this topic of matrimony.

How has your week been?

That's been very good. Thank you very much. And yours?

Good. Good. Very good, actually. We were just talking before we started

recording. It's always nice when a day actually is productive. It's so rare, probably for you as well as

the principal of a school. You get hit with 30 things before you get anything accomplished, probably.

That's often very true. It's kind of one of the joys having kidlets. You know, that happens.

Exactly. Well, Father, we talked about the traditional form of marriage. We talked about the traditional

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