Posted on 10/27/2014 6:12:31 AM PDT by EBH
MARRIAGE
As a natural institution, the lasting union of a man and a woman who agree to give and receive rights over each other for the performance of the act of generation and for the fostering of their mutual love.
The state of marriage implies four chief conditions: 1. there must be a union of opposite sexes; it is therefore opposed to all forms of unnatural, homosexual behavior; 2. it is a permanent union until the death of either spouse; 3. it is an exclusive union, so that extramarital acts are a violation of justice; and 4. its permanence and exclusiveness are guaranteed by contract; mere living together, without mutually binding themselves to do so, is concubinage and not marriage.
Christ elevated marriage to a sacrament of the New Law. Christian spouses signify and partake of the mystery of that unity and fruitful love which exists between Christ and his Church, helping each other attain to holiness in their married life and in the rearing and education of their children.
All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.
“On Saturday Pope Francis answered questions during an audience with over 7000 pilgrims of the Schönstatt movement. Among others he said that Christian marriage has never been so attacked as nowadays because there exists a throw-away culture in our society. Francis did not elaborate on whether in regard of this the recent Synod of Bishops was part of the solution or a part of the problem.
Revolution Phantasies: The Pope said to the Schönstadt-pilgrims that people describe him as a revolutionary and claimed that the Church has always been revolutionary confusing multiple times the two terms “revolution” and “reform”. Francis stressed that a first revolution happens through inner holiness. Nevertheless, holiness has never been described in the Church with the discredited and totalitarian political term “revolution”.
Polemicizing Pope: Pope Francis spoke about the importance of what he called “freedom of spirit” warning against closing ourselves up in a mass of rules and regulations, thus becoming a caricature of the doctors of law. Gloria.tv believes that it is unfair to caricature a thing in order to compare it with something else. Further it needs to be said that “freedom of spirit” is not freedom to sin neither to promote sin. Promoting adultery or homosexual acts is the opposite of “freedom of spirit”.
No thanks: Benedict XVI has written a private letter to the group Summorum Pontificum which organized an old rite High Mass celebrated on Saturday in Saint Peter’s by Cardinal Burke. Benedict writes: “I am very happy that the Usus antiquus lives now in full peace of the Church, also among young people, supported and celebrated by important cardinals. I will be with you in a spiritual way. My state of life as a “cloistered monk” does not allow me an exterior presence. I leave my cloister only in particular cases when personally invited by the Pope.”
http://www.gloria.tv/media/Sopqr2KuhGd
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