Regarding: "The various essays [Remaining in the Truth of Christ] all struck a common theme: The church's teaching on marriage is "irreformable," based on the words of Jesus in the Gospels, and unchanged for two millennia of Christian life."
- ArchbRaymond, dismissed as head of the Apostolic Signatura, superannuated and then resigned as chaplain to the Dames and Knights of Malta, illustrates the primary difficulty of  being ahistorical while discussing tradition, faith, and doctrine. Indeed, the two weakest links for his, and other like-minded, position is ahistoricity and a presumption that church law completely encapsulates all that may done.
- It is true that a marriage is a gift from God. But it is not true that all marriages are from God. That is, folks make mistakes.
- Also at risk via ArchbRaymond's position is the nature of the Eucharist which is food and medicine. These aspects teach that Jesus came to save broken people and that we are all broken.