Relationships & Family

• Marital

  To do with marriage
• Unitive

  Something that joins people together
• Procreative

  Creating new life
• Theology of the Body

  Series of Talks given by Pope John Paul II where he said that we are ur body and so waithing to have sex within a marriage is a way of loving our bodies and loving one another
• Adultery

  Having sex with someone other than your husband or wife
• Homosexuality

  Being attracted to the same sez
• Consummated

  Having sex as a final act of union within a marriage
• Cohabitation

  A couple living together and having a sexual relationship without being married to one another
• Annulment


  When the Church declares that your marriage was never valid in the first place
• Divorce

  Leagally ending a marriage
• Contraception

  Something which prevents a pregnancy
• Nuclear Family

  Traditional family structure with mum, dad and children living together
• Blended family

  When two people make a life together with the children from one or both of their previous relationships
• Gender prejudice

  Believing that one gender is superior to another
• Gender discrimination

  Acting on your gender prejudice
• "For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health until death do us part" - Catholic wedding vows
• Why is sexual love unitive

  "And the two shall become one flesh"
• Why is adultery so damaging

  Destroys unity expressed in sex
• "Allow children to proceed from their love" - Youcat
• "The body is a temple of the Holy Spirit" - 1 Corinthians
• "Everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already commited adultery with her in his heart" - Jesus Matthew
• Heterosexual

  Having romantic/sexual orientation to the opposite sex
• When could Same-sex couples get married in the UK

  2013
• 2019 bus attack

  Bus in London a lesbian couple were being harrased by a group of teenage boys who kept asking them to kiss - they beat the couple up when they refused
• Bible quote against homosexuality

  "No man is to have sexual relations with another man ; God hates that"
• Bible quote supporting homosexuality

  "Do for others just what you want them to do for you"
• Valid Catholic Marriage Conditions

  • Couple must be willing to accept God's gift of Children
  • Not already married (Bigamy)
  • Must not be closely related like first cousins
  • Catholic priest Present
  • Marriage not valid till consummated
  • Consent
  • Free will
  • Promise to remain together forever "till death do us part"
• Why is Catholic church against cohabitation

  • If couple split up it affects children
  • Breaks sanctity of sexual union and marriage
  • Destroy sense of need for faithfullness
• Original solitude

  Adam being alone as the only human before Eve
• Examples of situations where annulment would be granted

  • One partner had affairs
  • Couple never have sexual intercourse
  • Couple always use contraception (not accepting gift of children)
  • No free will e.g. forced to marry by parents
• Catholic position on divorce

  They believe marriage promises made before God cannot be broken and that marriage is "till death do us part". However in the Bible it says "Because of the hardness of your hearts, Moses allowed you to divorce your wives" meaning if divorce is the compassionate soloution to an unhappy relationship it is acceptable
• Catholic position on remariage

  Can only happen if the original partner has died. Anyone who divorces and remarries will not recieve communion. However allowed if the first 'marriage' was annulled as it was never technically classed as a marriage
• Catechism quote on remarriage


  "A new union cannot be recognised as valid, if the first marriage never was"
• A Catholic marriage:

  • In a church
  • Heterosexual
  • Priest present
  • Is a sacrament
  • Consummation
  • Open to children
• A secular marriage:

  • Officiated by a registrar
  • Can write own vows
  • Get married anywhere (except place of worship)
  • Hetero or Homo sexual
• Define Secular marriage

  Celebration of Love between 2 people
• Define Catholic Marriage

  Lifelong commitment between man and woman in presence of God
• Meaning of "I call upon these persons here to witness"


  Public declaration, showing love is genuine and asking for church community's support
• Meaning of using full name in wedding vows


  Ensures everyone knows the identity of those making the promises
• Meaning of "Lawfully wedded husband/wife"


  Both husband and wife make same promises showing equality