'Marriage' or 'Holy Matrimony'?

Jimmy Akin answers a caller who believes marriage should be referred to as "Holy Matrimony."

Jimmy Akin was born in Texas and grew up nominally Protestant. At age 20 he experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant pastor or seminary professor, Jimmy started an intensive study of the Bible, but the more he immersed himself in Scripture, the more he found it to support the Catholic faith. He entered the Church in 1992. His conversion story, “A Triumph and a Tragedy,” is published in the book Surprised By Truth.

Akin is Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a member on the Catholic Answers Speakers Bureau, a weekly guest on the global radio program, Catholic Answers LIVE, a contributing editor for Catholic Answers Magazine, and the author of numerous publications, including the books Mass Confusion, The Salvation Controversy, The Fathers Know Best, and Mass Revision.

[teahea]

It would have been nice to get more clarification for Paul's question on whether a Catholic marriage is different than any other (4:00). Jimmy referred to a marriage between any two baptized Christians as being sacramental. Then what makes a Catholic one in particular different from any other Christian marriages? I think it's different and special not only in relation to itself but in relation to the other sacraments, the Church, their vocation according to the Catholic understanding, etc.

[kikojoseph]

Actually, True Marriage is between your right and left hemispheres of the brain - a marriage between your mind - within your Temple, the spot between the eyes and ears. Because if we are divided as a person, then we are not True Individuals (individual means "un-divided." Because if we are divided with ourselves, then we are divided from God. PS, etymology has EVERYTHING to do with what words really mean. Look at the origins. Just because a majority is using a word in a certain way, does not always mean that the definition is relative.