Marriage
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- 2361 III. The Love of Husband and Wife "Sexuality, by means of which man and woman give themselves to one another through the acts which are proper and exclusive to spouses, is not something simply biological, but concerns the innermost …
- 2362 III. The Love of Husband and Wife "The acts in marriage by which the intimate and chaste union of the spouses takes place are noble and honorable; the truly human performance of these acts fosters the self-giving they signify …
- 2363 III. The Love of Husband and Wife The spouses' union achieves the twofold end of marriage: the good of the spouses themselves and the transmission of life. These two meanings or values of marriage cannot be separated without altering …
- 2364 III. The Love of Husband and Wife The married couple forms "the intimate partnership of life and love established by the Creator and governed by his laws; it is rooted in the conjugal covenant, that is, in their irrevocable …
- 2365 III. The Love of Husband and Wife Fidelity expresses constancy in keeping one's given word. God is faithful. the Sacrament of Matrimony enables man and woman to enter into Christ's fidelity for his Church. Through conjugal chastity, they bear …
- 2366 III. The Love of Husband and Wife Fecundity is a gift, an end of marriage, for conjugal love naturally tends to be fruitful. A child does not come from outside as something added on to the mutual love of …
- 2367 III. The Love of Husband and Wife Called to give life, spouses share in the creative power and fatherhood of God. 153 "Married couples should regard it as their proper mission to transmit human life and to educate their …
- 2373 III. The Love of Husband and Wife Sacred Scripture and the Church's traditional practice see in large families a sign of God's blessing and the parents' generosity. 162
- 2374 III. The Love of Husband and Wife Couples who discover that they are sterile suffer greatly. "What will you give me," asks Abraham of God, "for I continue childless?" 163 and Rachel cries to her husband Jacob, "Give me …
- 2375 III. The Love of Husband and Wife Research aimed at reducing human sterility is to be encouraged, on condition that it is placed "at the service of the human person, of his inalienable rights, and his true and integral …
- 2376 III. The Love of Husband and Wife Techniques that entail the dissociation of husband and wife, by the intrusion of a person other than the couple (donation of sperm or ovum, surrogate uterus), are gravely immoral. These techniques (heterologous …
- 2377 III. The Love of Husband and Wife Techniques involving only the married couple (homologous artificial insemination and fertilization) are perhaps less reprehensible, yet remain morally unacceptable. They dissociate the sexual act from the procreative act. the act which brings …
- 2378 III. The Love of Husband and Wife A child is not something owed to one, but is a gift. the "supreme gift of marriage" is a human person. A child may not be considered a piece of property, an …
- 2379 III. The Love of Husband and Wife The Gospel shows that physical sterility is not an absolute evil. Spouses who still suffer from infertility after exhausting legitimate medical procedures should unite themselves with the Lord's Cross, the source of …
- 2397 IN BRIEF The covenant which spouses have freely entered into entails faithful love. It imposes on them the obligation to keep their marriage indissoluble.
- 2398 IN BRIEF Fecundity is a good, a gift and an end of marriage. By giving life, spouses participate in God's fatherhood.
- 2400 IN BRIEF Adultery, divorce, polygamy, and free union are grave offenses against the dignity of marriage. Previous - Next Copyright © Libreria Editrice Vaticana