Christian marriage is the natural, normal, divinely inspired institution where all the virtues are learned and practised of necessity; where all the principles of Christian social teaching operate with their full fire and spirit; where the family’s concentric rings of relationships reach out to humanise and tie societies together; and, for Christians, it is the image of the Divine Trinity and the model of the Church.
As the “very model and norm of the social order”, Christian “marriag…
