Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Ode to Frank Sheed: A 'Secular' (Natural Law) Defense of Marriage - Marriage & Family - Home & Family - Catholic Online

Ode to Frank Sheed: A 'Secular' (Natural Law) Defense of Marriage - Marriage & Family - Home & Family - Catholic Online

Excerpt from this article:

In his 1933 book A Map of Life, Frank Sheed, a Catholic lay apologist whose work is still as vital and worth reading as it was decades ago, offered these observations on the laws of nature:

"Very early in life, man becomes aware that he is living in a world of laws: ...he discovers that fire burns, that hunger weakens, that rain wets, that bodies fall toward the earth and not toward the sky, and so with a myriad other things. If he reflects at all upon these laws, he realizes that they are not of his choosing-in fact that, in many cases, they are the reverse of what he would have chosen-but that their power is in no way affected by his disapproval. There is no way in which he can get free of them."

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