Catholic media company Saint Anthony Communications from the United Kingdom has a new DVD entitled "Marriage: God's Design for Life and Love" which hopes to address the church's teachings on marriage, sexuality, and family life.
"I think that so much of what is contained within the DVD has, for a large extent, not been taught in Catholic parishes, certainly across the Western world," Christian Holden, director and co-founder of Saint Anthony Communications, told the Catholic News Agency.
"I think for most people, they would know sort of the outlines of what the Catholic Church teaches; in brief what the church opposes, perhaps, but they wouldn't necessarily be able to articulate why the Church upholds certain things, or why it opposes certain things like contraception and cohabitation," he added.
Saint Anthony Communications has partnered with the British Confraternity of Catholic Clergy so that a copy of the DVD would be provided to each parish in the United Kingdom. They have already provided 1,000 copies to Australia and it would be distributed there through their local Confraternity of Catholic Clergy. The DVD will make its way soon to the parishes of Ireland.
The media company hopes that its DVD will also be distributed in the future in different churches in the United States as well as Canada.
Given the confusion the current generation has on marriage and sexuality, Holden hopes that the DVD will shed light on God's teachings in a way that is "gentle and charitable, and always upholding the dignity of the human person."
"I think the Church's vision for marriage and sexuality and the family is such a beautiful, wholesome vision, but it's so little known," Holden said. "I think some people perhaps have the perception that the church is imposing a whole series of rules – you shall not, you shall not."
The 43-minute film is divided into three sections and covers a wide range of topics, including marriage, cohabitation, divorce and remarriage, contraception, children and family life, and same-sex attraction. It will feature Cardinal Raymond Burke, Patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, and Bishop Mark Davies of Shrewsbury.
