Catholic Priest Says ‘Effeminate’ Men Are the Root Problem in Marriages
What is the biggest problem within Catholic marriages today? According to a traditional priest, it’s “effeminate” men.
By effeminate, he doesn’t mean a man who’s light in his loafers. He means a man who doesn’t spiritually lead his family, and so fails in his most important role.
Especially among traditional Catholics, much attention regarding marriage is given to the problems of feminism and wives’ call to submission. LifeSiteNews asked Father Adam Purdy, FSSPX, to what extent he sees feminism as a marital problem, versus the problem of overbearing husbands.
While he did not entirely dismiss either of these as real issues, he maintained that he sees much more often a “different problem” – that of men who are “weak,” “not virtuous,” and who don’t practice the virtue of religion, which is “the most important virtue for a husband and a father to have,” Purdy told LifeSiteNews.
This is the very crux of the marriage – because as the spiritual head of his family, it is the husband who is called to take the lead in his family’s practice of the faith.
What does exercizing the virtue of religion in the home look like for the husband (and father)? According to Purdy, setting a schedule in which “prayer and religion takes priority in the house” and leading his family in prayer are two major pillars of his spiritual headship.
“How often do we have situations where dad doesn’t pray with the family? Mom’s in charge of the rosary or mom’s in charge of morning prayers,” said Purdy, acknowledging that sometimes it may be necessary for mom to lead prayer when dad has to go out to work early, for example.
Fathers also don’t often ensure that prayer and religion are prioritized to begin with. “How many families don’t actually have a schedule? The only thing they have is dinner time, between five and six, and that’s it. Many families don’t say a family rosary,” Purdy noted.
It is critical that husbands make sure the family follows a rule of life, almost like that of a religious community, said Purdy. “There has to be a rule in the house, and most don’t have it. That’s the problem of the man.”
“How many families have silence? How many families have community prayer? How many families do reading? There are so many things that could
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