“Ahhhh…marriage- man’s most optimistic endeavor!

So claims the legendary sports announcer of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Vin Scully.

The Synod has acknowledged anew what God’s people have known “from the beginning”:  that to live a loving, lifelong, faithful, life-giving marriage takes sacrifice, hard work, and heroic virtue.

To believe this to be possible, as Vin Scully would remind us, is “most optimistic.”

Perhaps this is one of the reasons many of our young people do not get married.  Recent studies in the United States tell us that only 50% of our young people now approach the sacrament of matrimony.  Live together?  Yes.  Marry? …