I both listened to and read his speech and they were the same. Maybe you were admiring his appearance and not completely understanding his words. The bottom line is that Butker's beliefs are not in the mainstream on Catholic theology. He has a rigid, far-right outlook on issues that the church teaches people to be tolerant of. In fact, he's speaking out
against some issues that have already been codified in the Catechism of the Catholic Church... made into canon law in 1992 by John Paul II, who was far more conservative than Francis. Butker is trying to justify his ultra-conservative political and religious beliefs under the pretense that this is what Catholics are taught, but he's completely wrong.
There is very little in the NT about marriage spoken of by
Jesus himself. Even Butker can't deny that. This is the real truth:
"Jesus did
not say that marriage was the
end goal for
all people. Marriage is not for everyone, and not being married doesn't make you any less of a Christian. You can still be holy and growing in faith without a spouse. It is for this reason that marriage does not complete you. You are complete and whole as an individual in Christ. When we skew marriage to fulfill longings in us that only God can fill, we will always end up empty.
Second, while God gave us distinctive roles based on Christ and the Church, husbands and wives should understand that marriage is built on
mutual honor and respect. There may be roles specific genders are more inclined to accomplish or drawn to than others, but as Piper explains, "no subjection to another human is absolute."
Jesus on marriage: Jesus tells us what we need to know about marriage regardless of how we were raised or what we experienced.
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