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First Post- Philosophy of Matrimony And Success

While this is a Catholic Blog, following the Traditional Magisterial Teaching when it comes to the subject of marriage, children, and economics, it is also intended as a curriculum intended for 21st century Catholics living in Post-Protestant America.  As such, while it will draw heavily on the references and church documents listed below, there will also be a discussion of home economics, centered around the often lost, but always true, success formula for American Capitalism:

The Success Formula, modified for Catholic Teaching and with a couple of other steps, is this:

  1. Get your education- finish school.
  2. Date/Get a Job/Start a Business (if you have a wealthy relative, that last)
  3. Get Engaged/if to a non Catholic, RCIA/Pre-marital Counseling (hopefully using this cirriculum!)
  4. Find and buy a house
  5. Get Married
  6. Have sex (without contraception) and kids
  7. Never get divorced.
93% of couples who achieve these seven steps in this order in the United States, regardless of family or class of origin, will never know abject poverty.  They will never have to contend with fearing loss of family over illness or poverty.  They will not have the complications of divorce, will reduce their chances of developing cancer, and may even build a generation of equal or better skills and work ethic to take care of them in their old age.


The Church documents we will be reading here are:
Gather these documents, and I'll see you in the new year with a study of these items.

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