>>13071316By the intention of nature marriage is directed to the rearing of the offspring, not merely for a time, but throughout its whole life. Hence it is of natural law that parents should lay up for their children, and that children should be their parents' heirs (2 Corinthians 12:14). Therefore, since the offspring is the common good of husband and wife, the dictate of the natural law requires the latter to live together for ever inseparably: and so the indissolubility of marriage is of natural law.
-- St Thomas Aquinas, O.P.
In judging whether our "rulers" can be trusted to respond in a sane and rational way to Covid-19, we may want to remember that most of them apparently believe that two men can marry each other.
-- Fr. Thomas Crean, O.P.
