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To: Salvation
The article I posted focuses on Ireland, but could equally apply to any country where the "Social Justice" welfare state was implimented.

The RCC has always supported these polices and it is leading to the destruction of the family.

18 posted on 09/06/2013 7:52:25 PM PDT by ClaytonP
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To: ClaytonP

Did you read my post.

I emphatically pointed out that the Catholic Church has always supported families and the marriage of only one man and one woman.

They also have staunchly opposed contraception — what really destroys families.

Now you got the message twice.

Where are you getting your information? From some pastor who hates Catholics? From a pamplet?

Your information source as well as what you have posted here is in error.


19 posted on 09/06/2013 8:04:16 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: ClaytonP
You might want to check out the truth of your statements before you post again!
20 posted on 09/06/2013 8:08:23 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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1615 This unequivocal insistence on the indissolubility of the marriage bond may have left some perplexed and could seem to be a demand impossible to realize. However, Jesus has not placed on spouses a burden impossible to bear, or too heavy - heavier than the Law of Moses. By coming to restore the original order of creation disturbed by sin, he himself gives the strength and grace to live marriage in the new dimension of the Reign of God. It is by following Christ, renouncing themselves, and taking up their crosses that spouses will be able to "receive" the original meaning of marriage and live it with the help of Christ. This grace of Christian marriage is a fruit of Christ's cross, the source of all Christian life.

 

1640 Thus the marriage bond has been established by God himself in such a way that a marriage concluded and consummated between baptized persons can never be dissolved. This bond, which results from the free human act of the spouses and their consummation of the marriage, is a reality, henceforth irrevocable, and gives rise to a covenant guaranteed by God's fidelity. The Church does not have the power to contravene this disposition of divine wisdom.

 

1631 This is the reason why the Church normally requires that the faithful contract marriage according to the ecclesiastical form. Several reasons converge to explain this requirement:

- Sacramental marriage is a liturgical act. It is therefore appropriate that it should be celebrated in the public liturgy of the Church;

- Marriage introduces one into an ecclesial order, and creates rights and duties in the Church between the spouses and towards their children;

- Since marriage is a state of life in the Church, certainty about it is necessary (hence the obligation to have witnesses);

- The public character of the consent protects the "I do" once given and helps the spouses remain faithful to it.

1652 "By its very nature the institution of marriage and married love is ordered to the procreation and education of the offspring and it is in them that it finds its crowning glory."

Children are the supreme gift of marriage and contribute greatly to the good of the parents themselves. God himself said: "It is not good that man should be alone," and "from the beginning [he] made them male and female"; wishing to associate them in a special way in his own creative work, God blessed man and woman with the words: "Be fruitful and multiply." Hence, true married love and the whole structure of family life which results from it, without diminishment of the other ends of marriage, are directed to disposing the spouses to cooperate valiantly with the love of the Creator and Savior, who through them will increase and enrich his family from day to day.


21 posted on 09/06/2013 8:09:17 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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