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Year for Priests



In Defense of Marriage

"Marriage is not something we invent or change to suit our own purposes,"explains Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, the Archbishop of Louisville, and chair of a bishops' committee to defend marriage as only the union of a man and a woman.

“El matrimonio no es algo que podamos inventar o cambiar para servir a nuestros propios propσsitos”, explica el Arzobispo Josι Gomez, Arzobispo de San Antonio, en este comentario que defiende el matrimonio como la uniσn solamente de un hombre y una mujer.



A Message in Defense
of Marriage

English
Archbishop Joseph Kurtz
of Louisville

Spanish
Archbishop Jose Gomez
of San Antonio




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