“But, was it not precisely for such situations that marriage vows were designed?”, asks Elizabeth Scalia in Love, Limits, and Loss , today’s “On the Square” feature, commenting on CBS News correspondent Barry Petersen’s unusual marital arrangement.
“For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, together or apart.” Love, which is limitless, is supposed to be strong enough—even if we do not think we are—to survive these challenges.
We need to see that kind of love in marriages, she argues, to help us see it in God.
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