Wilcox Hits a Double | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Cultural factors are important - includging not just the impact of equality on sex in the marriage but of what that partners bring in terms of overall culture - someone who is an extreme hierarch or came out of a family where despotism is the rule won't have a good go of it, nor will someone who has had the example of easy divorce - where it is best to leave if one is upset rather than working through it. (I could name names). Economics is one of those problems - the biggest one - but certainly not the only one. Sex can be a problem to - both for the issue of adultery if the marriage is not satisfying or one is simply a sex addict (which is not cultural, it is addictive) or if sex has gone from great to non-existent due to the growing of kids or simple biology (see again the problem of leaving when things are mildly bad).
I know nothing of this Wilcox character. Is he a celibate? Has he been married or maybe divorced? Does he counsel marriages and divorces? What qualifies him to speak? Maybe they should ask someone like me who has been through some of this (not more than a few bishops know both me and my wife). I am sure they can find them in their own diocese rather than at a USCCB event.
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