Treasuring the Goods of Marriage in a Throwaway Society (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781644138540)

This powerhouse of a book masterfully vindicates the Church's rich teachings on matrimony, the priesthood, and religious life. Drawing on sources ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, Eastern Christian and Western, Dr. Peter Kwasniewski will teach you:

• The four kinds of marriage (can you guess them?) and four reasons why marriage is noble
• What the pulsating heart of marriage and family is and what marriage cannot exist without
• The lessons we can learn from the marriage of Mary and Joseph
• The two greatest mercies of God (they will surprise you!)
• Three ways to explain the meaning of sexuality to your children
• Sixteen arguments and replies regarding priestly celibacy

Dr. Kwasniewski demonstrates that both the dignity of marriage and family and the evils arrayed against them--pornography, self-gratification, premarital sex, divorce, contraception, and abortion--can and should be seen not only in terms of what they are but also in terms of what they signify spiritually and cosmically.

In the midst of a growing totalitarianism hell-bent on diluting, relativizing, ostracizing, and ultimately obliterating chaste and fruitful love, Dr. Kwasniewski extols the sacramental dignity of the human body, shines the light of faith and reason on fundamental truths about vocation and the gift of self, and renews confidence in the wisdom of Holy Mother Church.

About the Author

Dr. Peter Kwasniewski, Thomistic theologian, liturgical scholar, and choral composer, is a graduate of Thomas Aquinas College and The Catholic University of America. He has taught at the International Theological Institute in Austria, the Franciscan University of Steubenville's Austria Program, and Wyoming Catholic College, which he helped establish in 2006 and where he taught theology, philosophy, music, and art history and directed the choirs. He writes regularly for The New Liturgical Movement, OnePeterFive, Rorate Caeli, The Latin Mass Magazine, and other websites and publications. He has published sixteen books (eight as author and eight as editor), including seven on traditional Catholicism: Resurgent in the Midst of Crisis (Angelico, 2014), Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness (Angelico, 2017), Tradition and Sanity (Angelico, 2018), John Henry Newman on Worship, Reverence, and Ritual (Os Justi, 2019), Reclaiming Our Roman Catholic Birthright (Angelico, 2020), The Holy Bread of Eternal Life (Sophia, 2020), and Ministers of Christ(Sophia, 2021). His work has been translated so far into eighteen languages and Braille. Visit his website at www.peterkwasniewski.com.