MARRIAGE - The Magazine of Catholic Family Living - Three Levels of Love - Booby Traps in The Home - Mixed-up Medicine

Sep 29, 2026

A Catholic family-living magazine issue presents editorial and feature articles addressing love, home life, and faith-informed daily living. Content discusses controversies in medical ethics, quoting religious leaders and physicians to frame sterilization and social solidarity through Catholic teaching. The issue also includes reading guidance for children via a Catholic decency plan, encouraging a balanced diet of secular and religious periodicals. Additional sections highlight domestic themes, homemaking identity, and profiles of women writers and their work, connecting family roles with moral and personal development.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLifestyle

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Pages68

Reading Time1 h 45 min

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Mixed-up Medicine

Marriage and Catholic teaching on medical ethics

Reading guidance for children

Homemaking and women writers

MARRIAGEThe Magazine of Catholic Famly Liaing NOV,196235cTHREE LEVELSOF LOVEB0OBY TRAPSIN THE HOMETV GuideFOR CHILDREN Mixed-up Medicine YoU MUST have read the controversy over theVirginia "maternity"clinic sterilizing the poorwho requested it.Much verbiage poured fromthe press on both sides.Two of the quotationsrecorded at the time seemed to bring the realissue into focus. Rabbi Jay Kaufman,vice-president of the Union of American HebrewCongregations,insisted:"Voluntary sterilization is 'Playing God,'tampering with the divine economy."In defense of their practice,Dr.James Dellinger,head of the clinic,replied:"We are not playingGod;we simply believe that sterilization is good medicine.We arenot interested in this sociological mumbo-jumbo,and I personally feelthat religion and medicine don't mix." So,the doctor mouths his own brand of medical mumbo-jumbo,substituting science for God and excluding the Author of life fromthe inner sanctum of the temple of medicine,the operating room. Just such cases as the poor women of Virginia were the concernof John XXIII when he gave us Mater et Magistra:"God in his prov-idence has bestowed on the hunan race sufficient resources to shoulderwith dignity the burden of bringing children into the world.But thistask becones difficult or even impossible when men are led astray orbecome twisted in mind and so turn to means that are opposed to hunanreason or to man's social nature,and thus to the plans of God Himself." The Pope points to the source of the problem:"a defective economicand social organization which does not provide means of subsistenceand the failure of a sense of solidarity among people."And in sug-gesting a solution,he warns us against "methods and means that areunworthy of man and that exclude God from human life,"and assuresus that"the solution is to be found only in socio-economic progressachieved in a moral atmosphere befitting the dignity of mankind andthe inmense value of a single human life.” eo N1085 # 额HUSBAND-WIFE PARENT-CHILD ■ FAMILY-SOCIETY ■ FAMILY-GOD ■ FICTION Editor:Raban Hathorn,0.S.B.ManagingEditor:Charles Q.Mattingly,As8ociate Edi-tor8:Blaise Hettich,0.S.B.,Mary,Alice Zar-rella.General Manager:Eric Lies,O.S.B.,Contributing Editor8:Marcian Strange,0.S.B.,Richard and Margery Frisbie.Advisory Board:Committee appointed by the Cana Conferenceof Chicago,Promotion Representative:DennisHoward Associates,2607 Broadway,Fair Lawn, N.J.Advertising:Eric Lies,0.S.B.,AbbeyPress,St.Meinrad,Ind. Marriage is owned,edited,and publishedmonthly by St.Meinrad Archabbey at St.Meinrad,Indiana.Telephone:FLanders 7-5102.Manuscripts and editorial correspondenceshould be addressed to the EditorSubscrip- MARRIAGE The Magazine of Catholic Family Living How Reliable is Rhythm?John R.Cavanagh,M.D.....10My Wife Has Three Hands Charles Manwaring .......55 TV Guide for Children.............................24Booby Traps in The Home Alice Ogle ...............50 Our Home is a Second School Janet Waters............18Report From a Missionary FamilyMr.and Mrs.Leonard Peterso12 ......................42 Three Levels of Love Rev.Thomas J.Murpby..........6 A Penny's Worth of Memories Agnes Frances White 34 MEMBER/THE CATHOLIC PRES S A S s o CI ATIO N tion:United States and Canada $4.00 a year,Foreign $5.00.Renewal or change of addressshould be received four weeks in advance.(hecks and money orders payable to Marriage,St.Meinrad,Ind.Second-class postage paid atSt.Meinrad,Ind.,U.S.A.Acceptance for mail-ing at special rate of postage,section 1103,October 3,1917;authorized June 5,1919.In-dexed in the Catholic Periodical Index.◎1962,St.Meinrad Archabbey. PICTURE CREDITS:Photographs:Ross Ramer 19,Edward Lettau 33,AID 43,Jacques Lowe64Drawing8:George Sottung 34,JerryWarshaw 50.Front Cover:Edward Lettau. “Are their reading tastes acquired here?” As in so many other things,ayouthful readergrows up with ataste in reading pretty muchidentical to that found in hisown

FAQs

What ethical controversy does the issue address in the section about Mixed-up Medicine?

It discusses the controversy around a Virginia “maternity” clinic sterilizing poor women, presenting arguments from both a religious leader and the clinic’s physician.

How does the magazine advise Catholic families to guide children’s reading?

It promotes the National Catholic Decency in Reading School Plan, encouraging a balanced selection of secular and religious periodicals while rejecting gaudy, smut-filled magazines.

What themes does the issue highlight through “Gift from the Kitchen” and the discussion of women’s roles?

It explores homemaking as personal and moral formation, reflecting on how women manage time, family responsibilities, and personal development rather than “wasting” gifts meant for children.

Sep 29, 2026

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