The Two Become One Flesh: The Catholic View Of The Sacrament Of Marriage | Prof. Paul Gondreau

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🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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This lecture was given on April 25th, 2024, at University of Oregon.

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About the Speaker:

Paul Gondreau is professor of theology at Providence College, where he has taught for 26 years. He received his doctorate in theology from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, doing his dissertation on Christ's full humanity (Christ's human passions/emotions) under the renowned Thomist scholar Jean-Pierre Torrell. He specializes in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas and has published widely in the areas of Christology (focusing on Christ’s full humanity and his maleness), Christian anthropology, the moral meaning and purpose of human sexuality and sexual difference, the biblical vision of Aquinas' theology, the theology of disability, the sacrament of the Eucharist and the priesthood, and the Catholic vision of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:06.8	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:13.1	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
0:19.1	To learn more and to attend these events, visit us at
0:22.5	to mystic institute.org. As you know, Catholic moral teaching, especially on marriage, and all matters,
0:30.6	sexual is highly controversial. And it usually dismisses retrograde and out of step. Often the prevailing popular impression is that
0:39.4	Catholic teaching on marriage, covering as it does, the very meaning and purpose of human sexuality,
0:44.9	is about nothing more than a set of arbitrary rules, mostly a set of prohibitions, whereby
0:51.1	celibate old men shake their finger at the world and say, don't do this, don't do that.
0:56.7	And thus, that the Catholic Church harbors a disdain for human sexuality. It sees sexual activity
1:02.3	as tainted at its core. When I was in graduate school in Freberg, Switzerland, the local paper,
1:08.3	La Liberté, it ran a cartoon one time in which there's a Catholic
1:12.2	couple. They were in bed under the covers. You know they were Catholic because there was
1:16.1	crucifix on the wall. And one says to the other, when can we come out of the covers?
1:20.9	You know, as if what we're doing is inherently bad. The truth of the matter is quite different, however, because really at its
1:30.8	core and foundation of Catholic moral teaching is a certain vision of being human. That is a beautiful
1:36.6	conception of the fundamental structure of the human person, or of how a human being is constituted.
1:43.1	So at the foundation of Catholic moral teaching is an
1:45.6	understanding of how God has designed us and how He intends us to live as a result, an understanding
1:51.8	that is known both by faith and divine revelation and by reason alone or by philosophy. Catholic
1:58.5	moral teaching flows not only from an understanding of this design,
2:02.5	but a love for it, a love for how God has designed us and how he intends us to live.
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