Our salvation – yours and mine – does not happen out there, in some other place or in someone else’s life. It doesn’t occur in the media or latest gossip, online or otherwise. It doesn’t depend on our knowing the latest political intrigue or celebrity news. It depends on our personal and interior adherence to the Lord.
The disconnect between marriage and procreation, along with the equating of various forms of “relationships” to traditional marriage, have their consequences among Catholics, too. If we are to read “the signs of the times” as to who is and who isn’t having children, then perhaps it’s a moment for Catholics to abandon their timidity and, as many others falsely claim, to speak “prophetically.”