{"id":298577,"date":"2026-11-04T18:30:45","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T18:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/leo-xiii-on-what-marriage-owes-to-the-church\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T18:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T18:30:45","slug":"leo-xiii-on-what-marriage-owes-to-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/leo-xiii-on-what-marriage-owes-to-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo XIII on what marriage owes to the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"date\">Jan 2, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Mirus discusses Leo XIII&#8217;s 1880 encyclical<br \/>\n<em>Arcanum<\/em>, on Christian marriage. This was \u201cthe first formal<br \/>\nand synoptic teaching on marriage since the Council of Trent\u201d \u2013 a<br \/>\ngap of four centuries. <em>Arcanum<\/em> is focused on what the<br \/>\nChurch has done to uplift and protect marriage throughout history.<br \/>\nLeo argues at length that the state has no right to usurp the<br \/>\nChurch\u2019s governance of marriage.<\/p>\n<p>LINKS\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thomas&#8217;s article on Arcanum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/leo-xiii-on-what-marriage-owes-to-church\/\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/leo-xiii-on-what-marriage-owes-to-church\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo XIII, Arcanum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/leo-xiii\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_l-xiii_enc_10021880_arcanum.html\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/leo-xiii\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_l-xiii_enc_10021880_arcanum.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Audiobook of Pius XI&#8217;s Casti Connubii <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/pope-pius-xi-casti-connubii-on-christian-marriage-full\/\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/pope-pius-xi-casti-connubii-on-christian-marriage-full\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DONATE to make this show possible! <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio\">http:\/\/catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SIGN UP for Catholic Culture&#8217;s newsletter:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/newsletters\">https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/newsletters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n      var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n      if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n      js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n      js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.8&appId=834757889913083\";\n      fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicculturepodcast.libsyn.com\/leo-xiii-on-what-marriage-owes-to-the-church\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 2, 2026 Thomas Mirus discusses Leo XIII&#8217;s 1880 encyclical Arcanum, on Christian marriage. This was \u201cthe first formal and synoptic teaching on marriage since<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}