Quotes

• Genesis 2:24: ''A man leaves his father and mother and attaches to his wife, and they become one flesh''
• Marriage

  A partnership of the whole of life (CCC)
• Ephesians 5: 'Marriage shows the love that Christ has for the Church'
• Sexual Relationships


  In marriage, the physical intimacy of the spouses becomes a sign and pledge of spiritual communion (CCC)
• Sexuality

  A source of joy and pleasure (CCC)
• Pope Benedict XVI: 'The family is a 'communion of love''
• Pope Benedict XVI: 'The family is the best school at which to learn to live out those values which give dignity to a person'
• Family


  The domestic church (CCC)
• Parents

  Have the mission of teaching their children to pray and to discover their vocation as the children of God (CCC)
• Family Planning


  Preventing pregnancy contradicts the will of the Author of life(CCC)
• Divorce

  If divorce remains the only possible way, it can be tolerated and does not constitute a moral offence (CCC)
• Malachi 2:16: ''I hate divorce, says the Lord the God of Israel''
• Matthew 9:16: 'What God has joined together, let no man separate'
• Genesis 1:27: 'So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him: male and female he created them'
• Equality of Men and Women in the Family

  The family is the original cell of social life... in which husband and wife are called to give themselves in love (CCC)
• Galatians 3: 'There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus'
• Ephesians 5: 'Wives be subject to your husbands as to the Lord'
• 1 Corinthians: 'Women should keep silent in the churches'