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Catholic social scientists make the case for marriage and children

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Catholic social scientists are doing some of the most important work in the public square making a reasoned case for both state and society to promote marriage and stable two-parent families as important public goods.

I invited three of them — Melissa Kearney, Catherine Pakaluk and Brad Wilcox — onto OSV’s “Catholic in America” podcast to share more about how their recent books draw together mountains of research to make the case for why people should ignore the lies our culture tells us and get married, stay together and have big families.

We know by our Catholic faith — and the commonsense borne from plenty of human experience — that the natural family founded on marriage between a man and a woman is the building block of society.

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