Sociological Reductionism Masquerades as Pastoral Care in Latest Conciliar Marriage Study
National Catholic Register portal reports on a study by the Institute for Family Studies claiming churchgoing “Catholic” couples report higher marital happiness and sexual satisfaction than their secular peers, based on data from the General Social Survey, Pew Research, and CARA. The report, commissioned by the Novus Ordo organization FOCUS, frames the collapse of “Catholic” marriages since 1970 as a “faith-family paradox” and prescribes naturalistic remedies like “marriage formation for adolescents” and increased “parish support” for large families. This sociological analysis of the conciliar sect’s demographic trends exposes the utter bankruptcy of a religion reduced to self-reported well-being metrics, devoid of the supernatural order, the Cross, and the rights of Christ the King.