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1 1, 4(4) | Canon Law, canons 1067, 1068 §1, canon 1076, §§1-2. ~
2 3, 25(32)| 48: AAS 58 (1966), 1067-1069 [TPS XI,290-291]; Dogmatic
3 2, 10(10)| 1: AAS 58 ( 1 966) 1070-1073 [TPS XI, 292-293]. ~
4 1, 4(4) | canons 1067, 1068 §1, canon 1076, §§1-2. ~
5 1, 5(5) | Gynecology: AAS 58 (1966), 1168 [TPS XI, 401-403]. ~
6 3, 26(38)| 1966), 847-849 [TPS XI, 128-129]. ~
7 3, 26(38)| 1966), 847-849 [TPS XI, 128-129]. ~
8 2, 13 | 13. Men rightly observe that
9 3, 22(25)| nos. 6-7: AAS 56 (1964), 147 [TPS IX, 340-341].~
10 2, 18(23)| 59 (1967), 268 [TPS XII, 151].~
11 3, 23(27)| 1967), 281-284 [TPS XII, 160-162].~
12 3, 23(27)| 281-284 [TPS XII, 160-162].~
13 1, 4(4) | Arcanum: Acta Leonis XIII, 2 (1880), 26-29; Pius XI, encyc.
14 1, 4(1) | Singulari quadam: AAS 4 (1912), 658; Pius XI, encyc.letter
15 1, 4(1) | Catholic World: AAS 46 (1954), 671-672; John XXIII, encyc.
16 2, 17(21)| Association for the Blind: AAS 48 (1956), 461-462 [TPS III, 200-
17 3, 31 | the Apostle, in the year 1968, the sixth of Our pontificate. ~
18 3, 20 | 20. The teaching of the Church
19 2, 17(21)| 1956), 461-462 [TPS III, 200-201].~
20 2, 17(21)| 461-462 [TPS III, 200-201].~
21 1, 5(5) | AAS 57 (1965), 388 [TPS X, 225]; to National Congress of
22 3, 23 | 23. And now We wish to speak
23 3, 24 | 24. Our next appeal is to men
24 2, 14(14)| in terris: AAS 55 (1963), 259-260 [TPS IX, 15-16]; Second
25 3, 31 | St. Peter's, Rome, on the 25th day of July, the feast of
26 2, 14(14)| terris: AAS 55 (1963), 259-260 [TPS IX, 15-16]; Second
27 2, 18(23)| progressio: AAS 59 (1967), 268 [TPS XII, 151].~
28 2, 15(19)| See Pius XII, Address to 26th Congress of Italian Association
29 3, 27 | 27. Likewise we hold in the
30 3, 23(27)| nos. 48-55: AAS 59 (1967), 281-284 [TPS XII, 160-162].~
31 3, 23(27)| 48-55: AAS 59 (1967), 281-284 [TPS XII, 160-162].~
32 1, 4(4) | 1966), 1067-1074 [TPS XI, 289-295]; Code of Canon Law,
33 3, 24(28)| 58 (1966), 1074 [TPS XI, 294]. ~
34 1, 4(4) | 1067-1074 [TPS XI, 289-295]; Code of Canon Law, canons
35 3, 25(37)| Eph 5. 25, 28-29, 32-33. ~
36 1, 4(4) | 1961), 446-447 [TPS VII, 330-331]; Second Vatican Council,
37 2, 18(22)| Lk 2. 34.~
38 3, 22(25)| 56 (1964), 147 [TPS IX, 340-341].~
39 3, 22(25)| 1964), 147 [TPS IX, 340-341].~
40 1, 5(5) | 56 (1964), 588 [TPS IX, 355-356]; to Commission for
41 1, 5(5) | 1964), 588 [TPS IX, 355-356]; to Commission for the
42 3 | who has been given to us ~}36 Then let them implore the
43 3, 28(39)| 57 (1965), 29-31 [TPS X, 375-376].~
44 3, 28(39)| 1965), 29-31 [TPS X, 375-376].~
45 3, 26(38)| 40-45 [TPS X, 382-383, 386-387; Pastoral Constitution
46 3, 26(38)| 45 [TPS X, 382-383, 386-387; Pastoral Constitution on
47 1, 5(5) | and Birth: AAS 57 (1965), 388 [TPS X, 225]; to National
48 1, 5(5) | 58 (1966), 1168 [TPS XI, 401-403]. ~
49 1, 5(5) | 1966), 1168 [TPS XI, 401-403]. ~
50 1, 4(4) | Magistra: AAS 53 (1961), 446-447 [TPS VII, 330-331];
51 1, 4(1) | Magistra: AAS 53 (1961), 457. ~
52 1, 4(1) | the Catholic World: AAS 46 (1954), 671-672; John XXIII,
53 2, 17(21)| the Blind: AAS 48 (1956), 461-462 [TPS III, 200-201].~
54 2, 17(21)| Blind: AAS 48 (1956), 461-462 [TPS III, 200-201].~
55 1, 4(4) | the World of Today, nos. 47-52: AAS 58 (1966), 1067-
56 1, 4(4) | connubii: AAS 22 (1930), 545-546; Pius XII, Address to
57 1, 4(4) | connubii: AAS 22 (1930), 545-546; Pius XII, Address to Italian
58 2, 14(16)| connubii: AAS 22 (1930), 559-561; Pius XII, Address to
59 2, 11(12)| connubi: AAS 22 (1930), 560; Pius XII, Address to Midwives:
60 2, 14(16)| connubii: AAS 22 (1930), 559-561; Pius XII, Address to Midwives:
61 2, 14(14)| connubii: AAS 22 (1930), 562-564; Pius XII, Address to
62 2, 14(14)| connubii: AAS 22 (1930), 562-564; Pius XII, Address to Medico-Biological
63 2, 14(15)| connubii: AAS 22 (1930), 565; Decree of the Holy Office,
64 1, 4(1) | connubii: AAS 22 (1930), 579-581; Pius XII, address Magnificate
65 1, 4(1) | connubii: AAS 22 (1930), 579-581; Pius XII, address Magnificate
66 1, 5(5) | Cardinals: AAS 56 (1964), 588 [TPS IX, 355-356]; to Commission
67 1, 4(4) | Magistri: AAS 22 (1930), 58-61; encyc.letter Casti connubii:
68 1, 4(1) | Singulari quadam: AAS 4 (1912), 658; Pius XI, encyc.letter Casti
69 1, 4(1) | Catholic World: AAS 46 (1954), 671-672; John XXIII, encyc.letter
70 1, 4(1) | World: AAS 46 (1954), 671-672; John XXIII, encyc.letter
71 2, 14(15)| 22, 1940: AAS 32 (1940), 73; Pius XII, Address to Midwives:
72 1, 4(4) | AAS 43 (1951), 857-859; to 7th congress of International
73 1, 4(4) | Midwives: AAS 43 (1951), 835-854; to the association
74 2, 14(14)| Midwives: AAS 43 (1951), 842-843; Address to Family Campaign
75 2, 14(15)| Midwives: AAS 43~(1951), 843-844; to the Society of Hematology:
76 2, 16(20)| Midwives: AAS 43 (1951), 846. ~
77 3, 26(38)| no. 11: AAS 58 (1966), 847-849 [TPS XI, 128-129]. ~
78 3, 26(38)| 11: AAS 58 (1966), 847-849 [TPS XI, 128-129]. ~
79 1, 4(4) | Midwives: AAS 43 (1951), 835-854; to the association known
80 2, 10(9) | Summa Theologiae, I-II, q. 94, art. 2.~
81 2, 10(10)| nos . 50- 5 1: AAS 58 ( 1 966) 1070-1073 [TPS XI, 292-
82 2, 14 | and, above all, all direct abortion, even for therapeutic reasons,
83 3, 29 | toward sin, but patient and abounding in mercy toward sinners? ~
84 | about
85 2, 16 | husband and wife are ready to abstain from intercourse during
86 3, 22 | human spirit. It is quite absurd to defend this kind of depravity
87 3, 31 | all holiness and pity an abundance of heavenly grace as a pledge
88 3, 21 | it brings to family life abundant fruits of tranquility and
89 3 | recourse to the mercy of God, abundantly bestowed in the Sacrament
90 1, 3 | totality, could it not be accepted that the intention to have
91 2 | We stated earlier, and in accordance with a correct understanding
92 1, 3 | life today and taking into account the relevance of married
93 3 | social justice, of a selfish accumulation of material goods, and finally
94 2, 7 | of married life must be accurately defined and analyzed. This
95 2, 17 | is that a man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive
96 3, 21 | right sense of values and achieve a serene and harmonious
97 2, 13 | laws of conception is to acknowledge that one is not the master
98 3, 21 | family life and that they acquire complete mastery over themselves
99 3 | field lies open for the activities of the great international
100 2, 12 | of laws written into the actual nature of man and of woman.
101 2, 11 | infertile. For its natural adaptation to the expression and strengthening
102 2, 8 | have been baptized is, in addition, invested with the dignity
103 2, 10 | precepts, decide not to have additional children for either a certain
104 3, 19 | Our words would not be an adequate expression of the thought
105 1, 3 | of birth? Could it not be admitted, in other words, that procreative
106 2, 17 | to resolve the problems affecting an entire country resorts
107 2, 17 | should surround with care and affection. ~Finally, careful consideration
108 2, 14 | magisterium of the Church has affirmed on many occasions, is direct
109 2, 16 | with his Creator. But she affirms that this must be done within
110 3, 19 | difficult conditions which today afflict families and peoples. The
111 3, 28 | Christ, that all of you agree and that there be no dissensions
112 2, 17 | effect that gives cause for alarm is that a man who grows
113 3, 23 | morals. We beg of you, never allow the morals of your peoples
114 3, 22 | the liberty which may be allowed in this field by the public
115 2, 9 | generously share everything, allowing no unreasonable exceptions
116 | alone
117 2, 16 | nature which come within its ambit and to direct them toward
118 3, 19 | honest regulation of birth amid the difficult conditions
119 2, 7 | be accurately defined and analyzed. This is what We mean to
120 3, 25 | Baptism, has been confirmed anew and made more explicit by
121 2, 18 | 18. It is to be anticipated that perhaps not everyone
122 3 | in mind the justifiable anxieties which weigh upon them when
123 3, 28 | Therefore We make Our own the anxious words of the great Apostle
124 1, 3 | that procreative finality applies to the totality of married
125 3 | should take up the burden appointed to them, willingly, in the
126 3, 29 | prayer and prepare them to approach more often with great faith
127 1, 6 | especially because certain approaches and criteria for a solution
128 1, 4 | Church has always issued appropriate documents on the nature
129 1, 5 | would enable it to give an apt reply in this matter, which
130 2, 18 | laws, she cannot be their arbiter—only their guardian and
131 2 | life should be left to the arbitrary decision of men, we must
132 1, 4(4) | Leo XIII, encyc.letter Arcanum: Acta Leonis XIII, 2 (1880),
133 Int | Brothers the Patriarchs, Archbishops, Bishops and other Local
134 2, 14 | Neither is it valid to argue, as a justification for
135 3, 28 | And this, rather than the arguments they put forward, is why
136 2, 16 | reasons for spacing births, arising from the physical or psychological
137 1, 6 | However, the conclusions arrived at by the commission could
138 3, 29 | faithful and invites their assent. Teach married couples the
139 2, 9 | no one has the right to assert that it is impossible; it
140 2, 16 | such as man is so closely associated with his Creator. But she
141 3, 22 | to the need to create an atmosphere favorable to the growth
142 3, 22 | society. We would call their attention to the need to create an
143 1, 2 | going to grow faster than available resources, with the consequence
144 1, 2 | even harsher measures to avert this danger. There is also
145 | away
146 3, 25 | which, deriving from their Baptism, has been confirmed anew
147 2, 8 | marriage of those who have been baptized is, in addition, invested
148 3, 22 | communication which arouses men's baser passions and encourages
149 3, 24 | determining a sufficiently secure basis for the chaste limitation
150 3, 25 | the full their calling and bear witness as becomes them,
151 | becomes
152 3, 23 | preservation of morals. We beg of you, never allow the
153 2, 14 | generative process already begun and, above all, all direct
154 Int | Sons, Health and Apostolic Benediction. ~
155 2, 16 | direct them toward ends beneficial to man. Others ask on the
156 3, 25 | times very great, which beset the lives of Christian married
157 3 | already doing so nobly, and bestir themselves to renew their
158 3, 31 | pledge of which We gladly bestow Our apostolic blessing. ~
159 3 | mercy of God, abundantly bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance.
160 2, 18 | civilization. She urges man not to betray his personal responsibilities
161 2, 16 | and peace of a family are better served and more suitable
162 2, 7 | specific to such disciplines as biology, psychology, demography
163 3, 29 | the world, 41 was He not bitterly severe toward sin, but patient
164 2, 17 | the moral law. Who will blame a government which in its
165 3, 31 | gladly bestow Our apostolic blessing. ~Given at St. Peter's,
166 2, 15 | means necessary to cure bodily diseases, even if a foreseeable
167 2, 16 | education of children already born. To this question We must
168 3 | mutual aid between all the branches of the great human family.
169 3, 25 | that life which, like a brightly burning torch, lights up
170 3, 21 | spiritual blessings. For it brings to family life abundant
171 2, 13 | through specific laws, has built into it, frustrates His
172 3 | wives should take up the burden appointed to them, willingly,
173 3, 25 | life which, like a brightly burning torch, lights up their journey,
174 3, 22 | human society. We would call their attention to the need
175 3, 29 | dealings with men. For when He came, not to judge, but to save
176 1, 4(4) | 295]; Code of Canon Law, canons 1067, 1068 §1, canon 1076, §§
177 2, 13 | mutual love which impairs the capacity to transmit life which God
178 1, 5(5) | Address to Sacred College of Cardinals: AAS 56 (1964), 588 [TPS
179 2, 17 | and affection. ~Finally, careful consideration should be
180 1, 6 | now that We have sifted carefully the evidence sent to Us
181 1, 4 | eternal salvation. 3~In carrying out this mandate, the Church
182 3, 24 | especially those who are Catholics, will by their research
183 2, 17 | Another effect that gives cause for alarm is that a man
184 2, 11 | It does not, moreover, cease to be legitimate even when,
185 2, 8 | from being the effect of chance or the result of the blind
186 3, 25 | she flings wide open the channels of grace through which man
187 3, 21 | giving it a more truly human character. And if this self-discipline
188 2, 9 | light of these facts the characteristic features and exigencies
189 3, 24 | sufficiently secure basis for the chaste limitation of offspring. 29
190 2, 11 | wife are intimately and chastely united with one another,
191 3 | flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ does the Church. . .
192 2, 16 | motives the birth of another child is not desirable. And when
193 2, 10 | not free to act as they choose in the service of transmitting
194 2, 16 | or wife, or from external circumstances, the Church teaches that
195 3, 23 | law and the freedom of the citizens are both safeguarded. ~
196 3, 24 | the truth of the Church's claim that "there can be no contradiction
197 2, 18 | teaching. There is too much clamorous outcry against the voice
198 Int | the Apostolic See, to the Clergy and Faithful of the Whole
199 2, 12 | husband and wife in the closest intimacy, also renders them
200 1, 4(4) | 1074 [TPS XI, 289-295]; Code of Canon Law, canons 1067,
201 Int, 1 | in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly with
202 3, 27 | among their professional colleagues. Moreover, they should regard
203 1, 5(5) | Paul VI, Address to Sacred College of Cardinals: AAS 56 (1964),
204 1, 4 | to teach all nations His commandments, 2 constituted them as the
205 2, 16 | the first to praise and commend the application of human
206 3, 23 | nations. To you most of all is committed the responsibility of safeguarding
207 3, 26 | themselves will often desire to communicate their own experience to
208 1, 4 | that Jesus Christ, when He communicated His divine power to Peter
209 Int | Ordinaries in Peace and Communion with the Apostolic See,
210 1 | I. PROBLEM AND COMPETENCY OF THE MAGISTERIUM~
211 1, 4 | deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret
212 1, 5 | all the aspects of this complex subject. Hence We are deeply
213 2, 9 | above all fully human, a compound of sense and spirit. It
214 3, 30 | when God's design which He conceived for the world is faithfully
215 2, 10 | paramount importance. It concerns the objective moral order
216 3, 30 | well know, it calls for concerted pastoral action in every
217 1, 6 | 6. However, the conclusions arrived at by the commission
218 Int, 1 | of human society and the concomitant changes have provoked new
219 2, 16 | the infertile period but condemns as always unlawful the use
220 3, 20 | the benefits which they confer on men, so this law demands
221 2, 9 | love is fecund. It is not confined wholly to the loving interchange
222 1, 5 | responsibility induced Us to confirm and expand the commission
223 3, 25 | their Baptism, has been confirmed anew and made more explicit
224 3, 21 | essential to married life, conform to right order. This is
225 3 | aware of the difficulties confronting the public authorities in
226 Int, 1 | concern matters intimately connected with the life and happiness
227 2, 12 | based on the inseparable connection, established by God, which
228 2, 11(12)| XI. encyc. letter Casti connubi: AAS 22 (1930), 560; Pius
229 1, 3 | because people are more conscious today of their responsibilities,
230 3, 25 | and, one might almost say, consecrated to the faithful fulfillment
231 3, 24 | men of science. These can "considerably advance the welfare of marriage
232 2, 17 | his own desires, no longer considering her as his partner whom
233 2, 16 | is inconsistent when she considers it lawful for married people
234 1, 4 | nations His commandments, 2 constituted them as the authentic guardians
235 2, 13 | frustrates His design which constitutes the norm of marriage, and
236 2, 12 | called. We believe that our contemporaries are particularly capable
237 2, 9 | the partner's own sake, content to be able to enrich the
238 3, 21 | the practice of periodic continence. Self-discipline of this
239 3, 27 | interest. Let them therefore continue constant in their resolution
240 2, 18 | is convinced that she is contributing to the creation of a truly
241 2, 9 | husband and wife; it also contrives to go beyond this to bring
242 2, 16 | that are infertile, thus controlling birth in a way which does
243 2, 9 | thinking solely of their own convenience. Whoever really loves his
244 3, 29 | Christ Himself showed in His conversations and dealings with men. For
245 2, 8 | they perfect one another, cooperating with God in the generation
246 3, 25 | for one another and the cooperation they give to God's love,
247 1, 4 | documents have been more copious in recent times. 4~
248 2, 17(21)| of Italian Association of Cornea Donors and Italian Association
249 2, 10 | ensure that what they do corresponds to the will of God the Creator.
250 3, 27 | position to give them right counsel and to point them in the
251 3, 28 | your sacred office act as counselors and spiritual leaders both
252 2, 9 | meritorious. The example of countless married couples proves not
253 2, 17 | problems affecting an entire country resorts to the same measures
254 3, 22 | attention to the need to create an atmosphere favorable
255 2, 13 | inception it reveals the creating hand of God." 13~
256 2, 18 | she is contributing to the creation of a truly human civilization.
257 1, 6 | because certain approaches and criteria for a solution to this question
258 3 | goods, and finally of a culpable failure to undertake those
259 3, 30 | human diligence, economic, cultural and social. If simultaneous
260 3, 22 | depravity in the name of art or culture 25 or by pleading the liberty
261 2, 15 | therapeutic means necessary to cure bodily diseases, even if
262 2, 16 | advantage of the natural cycles immanent in the reproductive
263 2, 9 | the joys and sorrows of daily life, but also to grow,
264 3, 25 | way to Our own sons and daughters, to those most of all whom
265 1, 2 | frequently difficult these days to provide properly for
266 3, 29 | in His conversations and dealings with men. For when He came,
267 Int | Will. ~Honored Brothers and Dear Sons, Health and Apostolic
268 2, 9 | all other, and this until death. This is how husband and
269 2 | be left to the arbitrary decision of men, we must accept that
270 1, 4 | predecessors have many times declared, 1 that Jesus Christ, when
271 1, 4 | For the natural law, too, declares the will of God, and its
272 3, 22 | spirit. It is quite absurd to defend this kind of depravity in
273 2, 18 | expedients. In this way she defends the dignity of husband and
274 2, 7 | life must be accurately defined and analyzed. This is what
275 1, 6 | not be considered by Us as definitive and absolutely certain,
276 2, 9 | contribute in the highest degree to their parents' welfare." 8 ~
277 3, 30 | with all zeal and without delay to safeguarding the holiness
278 3, 21 | this self-discipline does demand that they persevere in their
279 2, 7 | as biology, psychology, demography or sociology. It is the
280 2, 16 | generative process. It cannot be denied that in each case the married
281 1, 4 | faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent
282 3, 22 | absurd to defend this kind of depravity in the name of art or culture 25
283 2, 13 | use this divine gift while depriving it, even if only partially,
284 3, 25 | life, a vocation which, deriving from their Baptism, has
285 3, 26 | couples themselves will often desire to communicate their own
286 2, 17 | satisfaction of his own desires, no longer considering her
287 2, 18 | than her divine Founder, is destined to be a "sign of contradiction." 22
288 2, 17 | of the divine law and are determined to avoid them, they may
289 3, 24 | natural rhythms succeed in determining a sufficiently secure basis
290 3, 30 | of your dioceses, and to devote yourselves with all zeal
291 1, 4(4) | Discorsi e radiomessaggi di Pio XII, VI, 191-192; to
292 2, 16 | two cases are completely different. In the former the married
293 3, 19 | Church, in fact, cannot act differently toward men than did the
294 3, 30 | in every field of human diligence, economic, cultural and
295 3, 20 | who consider this matter diligently it will indeed be evident
296 3, 30 | to the faithful of your dioceses, and to devote yourselves
297 3, 27 | point them in the proper direction. Married couples have a
298 3 | III. PASTORAL DIRECTIVES~
299 3 | that hope which "does not disappoint us, because God's love has
300 2, 10 | procreative faculty the human mind discerns biological laws that apply
301 2, 7 | aspects specific to such disciplines as biology, psychology,
302 2, 15 | necessary to cure bodily diseases, even if a foreseeable impediment
303 1, 6 | and absolutely certain, dispensing Us from the duty of examining
304 2, 17 | reverence due to a woman, and, disregarding her physical and emotional
305 3, 28 | agree and that there be no dissensions among you, but that you
306 3, 29 | therefore, when deeply distressed by reason of the difficulties
307 1, 4(4) | 29; Pius XI, encyc.letter Divini illius Magistri: AAS 22 (
308 2 | II. DOCTRINAL PRINCIPLES~
309 1, 2 | stupendous progress in the domination and rational organization
310 1, 4(1) | XII, address Magnificate Dominum to the episcopate of the
311 | done
312 2, 17(21)| Italian Association of Cornea Donors and Italian Association
313 3 | and, most of all, let them draw grace and charity from that
314 2, 9 | natural instinct or emotional drive. It is also, and above all,
315 2, 8 | family in heaven and on earth is named." 7~Marriage, then,
316 3, 30 | only more tolerable, but easier and more joyful. And life
317 2, 17 | an evil thing to make it easy for them to break that law.
318 3, 23 | will assist families and by educating the people wisely so that
319 1, 2 | both in the economic and educational field pose a living situation
320 1, 3 | sometimes only by heroic effort? ~Moreover, if one were
321 3, 24 | their efforts they strive to elucidate more thoroughly the conditions
322 1, 6 | solution to this question had emerged which were at variance with
323 1, 5 | with such evidence as would enable it to give an apt reply
324 3, 21 | time the salutary effect of enabling husband and wife to develop
325 3, 23 | problem—that is to say by enacting laws which will assist families
326 3, 22 | men's baser passions and encourages low moral standards, as
327 3, 27 | exercise of their calling, endeavor to fulfill the demands of
328 1, 2 | to the point that he is endeavoring to extend this control over
329 2, 16 | and to direct them toward ends beneficial to man. Others
330 2, 9 | the source of profound and enduring happiness. ~Finally, this
331 2, 16 | reproductive system and engage in marital intercourse only
332 3, 22 | to address those who are engaged in education and all those
333 3, 31 | which the Most High God has engraved in his very nature. These
334 3, 20 | evident that this endurance enhances man's dignity and confers
335 3, 28 | the pastors of the Church enjoy a special light of the Holy
336 | enough
337 2, 9 | sake, content to be able to enrich the other with the gift
338 2, 10 | contrary, they are bound to ensure that what they do corresponds
339 Int, 1 | even though it sometimes entails many difficulties and hardships. ~
340 2, 14 | future to form a single entity, and so be qualified by
341 2 | principle of totality" enunciated by Our predecessor Pope
342 3 | this question is one which envisages the social and economic
343 2, 17 | her physical and emotional equilibrium, reduce her to being a mere
344 2, 14 | Consequently, it is a serious error to think that a whole married
345 3, 28 | such obedience. Nor will it escape you that if men's peace
346 3, 24 | will by their research establish the truth of the Church'
347 3, 27 | Likewise we hold in the highest esteem those doctors and members
348 2, 18 | does not, because of this, evade the duty imposed on her
349 2, 9 | the highest importance to evaluate them exactly. ~This love
350 2, 18 | moral law, both natural and evangelical. ~Since the Church did not
351 | ever
352 3, 20 | diligently it will indeed be evident that this endurance enhances
353 2, 8 | the result of the blind evolution of natural forces. It is
354 1, 5 | questions. Its task was to examine views and opinions concerning
355 1, 6 | dispensing Us from the duty of examining personally this serious
356 2 | authority, can lawfully exceed. These limits are expressly
357 2, 9 | allowing no unreasonable exceptions and not thinking solely
358 2, 16 | equally true that it is exclusively in the former case that
359 2, 10 | responsible parenthood is exercised by those who prudently and
360 3 | If, however, sin still exercises its hold over them, they
361 2, 10 | man's reason and will must exert control over them. ~With
362 2, 9 | characteristic features and exigencies of married love are clearly
363 1, 5 | induced Us to confirm and expand the commission set up by
364 3, 27 | couples have a right to expect this much from them. ~
365 2, 18 | all his faith in technical expedients. In this way she defends
366 3, 25 | his Creator and Savior, experiencing too the sweetness of the
367 2, 16 | principles which We have just explained. 20~Neither the Church nor
368 3, 25 | confirmed anew and made more explicit by the Sacrament of Matrimony.
369 2, 17 | especially the young, who are so exposed to temptation—need incentives
370 2, 12 | particular doctrine, often expounded by the magisterium of the
371 2, 16 | their married intimacy to express their mutual love and safeguard
372 2 | exceed. These limits are expressly imposed because of the reverence
373 1, 2 | that he is endeavoring to extend this control over every
374 2, 16 | husband or wife, or from external circumstances, the Church
375 1, 2 | developing countries would be faced with greater hardships.
376 2, 9 | 9. In the light of these facts the characteristic features
377 2, 13 | his specifically sexual faculties, for these are concerned
378 3 | and finally of a culpable failure to undertake those initiatives
379 2 | Faithfulness to God's Design~
380 1, 2 | population is going to grow faster than available resources,
381 2, 17 | public authorities from favoring those contraceptive methods
382 1, 2 | population which has made many fear that world population is
383 3, 31 | the 25th day of July, the feast of St. lames the Apostle,
384 2, 9 | facts the characteristic features and exigencies of married
385 2, 14(15)| Decree of the Holy Office, Feb. 22, 1940: AAS 32 (1940),
386 2, 9 | Finally, this love is fecund. It is not confined wholly
387 1, 3 | now, especially when it is felt that these can be observed
388 2, 16 | from intercourse during the fertile period as often as for reasonable
389 2, 11 | nature and the incidence of fertility in such a way that successive
390 3, 28 | families—We turn to you filled with great confidence. For
391 1, 3 | words, that procreative finality applies to the totality
392 3, 29 | difficulties of their life, must find stamped in the heart and
393 2, 18 | of proclaiming humbly but firmly the entire moral law, both
394 3 | no man ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes
395 3, 25 | through the sacraments she flings wide open the channels of
396 2, 10 | what is the right course to follow. On the contrary, they are
397 3, 30 | the world is faithfully followed. ~
398 2, 10 | human society. ~From this it follows that they are not free to
399 1, 3 | review the moral norms in force till now, especially when
400 2, 15 | bodily diseases, even if a foreseeable impediment to procreation
401 2, 11 | independent of their will, it is foreseen to be infertile. For its
402 2, 17 | contraceptive methods may forget the reverence due to a woman,
403 3, 26 | And surely among all the forms of the Christian apostolate
404 3, 28 | than the arguments they put forward, is why you are bound to
405 3, 24 | and that which governs the fostering of married love." 30~
406 3, 21 | difficulties of other kinds. It fosters in husband and wife thoughtfulness
407 2, 18 | no less than her divine Founder, is destined to be a "sign
408 3 | charity from that unfailing fount which is the Eucharist.
409 3, 30 | society will be enriched with fraternal charity and made more stable
410 1, 2 | situation in which it is frequently difficult these days to
411 2, 9 | special form of personal friendship in which husband and wife
412 2, 13 | laws, has built into it, frustrates His design which constitutes
413 3, 27 | their calling, endeavor to fulfill the demands of their Christian
414 3, 26 | comes about that in the fullness of the lay vocation will
415 2, 12 | The reason is that the fundamental nature of the marriage act,
416 2, 14 | procreative acts of past and future to form a single entity,
417 3, 25 | for every one of us, "the gate is narrow and the way is
418 2, 12 | renders them capable of generating new life—and this as a result
419 3, 21 | another, transforms it by giving it a more truly human character.
420 3, 31 | as a pledge of which We gladly bestow Our apostolic blessing. ~
421 3, 25 | live "sober, upright and godly lives in this world," 34
422 1, 2 | that world population is going to grow faster than available
423 2, 14 | by exactly the same moral goodness as these. Though it is true
424 3 | accumulation of material goods, and finally of a culpable
425 3, 20 | with the grace by which the goodwill of men is sustained and
426 1, 4 | that is, of the law of the Gospel but also of the natural
427 2, 16 | concerning the moral laws governing marriage, that human intelligence
428 3 | the result of misguided governmental policies, of an insufficient
429 3 | children. 27 If only all governments which were able would do
430 1, 3 | gives rise to new questions. Granted the conditions of life today
431 1, 5 | subject. Hence We are deeply grateful to all those concerned. ~
432 1, 6 | reply to this series of grave questions. ~
433 3 | No one can, without being grossly unfair, make divine Providence
434 2, 17 | alarm is that a man who grows accustomed to the use of
435 3, 22 | atmosphere favorable to the growth of chastity so that true
436 2, 18 | their arbiter—only their guardian and interpreter. It could
437 1, 4 | constituted them as the authentic guardians and interpreters of the
438 3, 31 | Catholic episcopate faithfully guards and interprets. And We are
439 3, 30 | of marriage, in order to guide married life to its full
440 3, 19 | to its native truth and guided by the Spirit of God. 24
441 1, 5(5) | Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology: AAS 58 (1966), 1168 [TPS
442 2, 17 | everyone. It could well happen, therefore, that when people,
443 1, 5 | predecessor Pope John XXIII, of happy memory, in March, 1963.
444 3, 21 | and achieve a serene and harmonious use of their mental and
445 1, 2 | be tempted to take even harsher measures to avert this danger.
446 3 | himself. For no man ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes
447 3, 19 | of all peoples, if, after having recalled men to the observance
448 Int | Brothers and Dear Sons, Health and Apostolic Benediction. ~
449 2, 8 | from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named." 7~
450 3, 31 | and pity an abundance of heavenly grace as a pledge of which
451 3, 25(33)| Mt 7. 14; see Heb 12. 11.~
452 3, 25 | God's law, she is also the herald of salvation and through
453 1, 3 | difficulty, sometimes only by heroic effort? ~Moreover, if one
454 3, 31 | the laws which the Most High God has engraved in his
455 | Him
456 3, 21 | wife and, far from being a hindrance to their love of one another,
457 3, 19 | also support mankind in the honest regulation of birth amid
458 2, 9 | on the contrary, always honorable and meritorious. The example
459 Int | to All Men of Good Will. ~Honored Brothers and Dear Sons,
460 1, 2 | that not only working and housing conditions but the greater
461 2, 18 | imposed on her of proclaiming humbly but firmly the entire moral
462 2, 10(9) | Thomas, Summa Theologiae, I-II, q. 94, art. 2.~
463 2, 11(11)| See ibid., no. 49: AAS 58 (1966),
464 Int, 1 | questions. The Church cannot ignore these questions, for they
465 2, 15 | does not consider at all illicit the use of those therapeutic
466 1, 4(4) | XI, encyc.letter Divini illius Magistri: AAS 22 (1930),
467 1, 4 | based on the natural law as illuminated and enriched by divine Revelation. ~
468 3, 29 | sound doctrine, He also illumines from within the hearts of
469 2, 16 | advantage of the natural cycles immanent in the reproductive system
470 2, 13 | act of mutual love which impairs the capacity to transmit
471 2, 7 | responsible parenthood, these two important realities of married life
472 2, 17 | necessary, they may even impose their use on everyone. It
473 2, 17 | exposed to temptation—need incentives to keep the moral law, and
474 2, 13 | recalled. "From its very inception it reveals the creating
475 2, 11 | ordered laws of nature and the incidence of fertility in such a way
476 2, 16 | Church nor her doctrine is inconsistent when she considers it lawful
477 1, 2 | place there is the rapid increase in population which has
478 3, 22 | written word and every form of indecency on the stage and screen,
479 2, 10 | for either a certain or an indefinite period of time. ~Responsible
480 2, 11 | legitimate even when, for reasons independent of their will, it is foreseen
481 2, 9 | married love are clearly indicated, and it is of the highest
482 1, 4 | moral law. It is in fact indisputable, as Our predecessors have
483 2, 17 | that when people, either individually or in family or social life,
484 3 | economic progress both of individuals and of the whole of human
485 1, 2 | hardships. This can easily induce public authorities to be
486 1, 5 | the same responsibility induced Us to confirm and expand
487 2, 17 | wide the way for marital infidelity and a general lowering of
488 3, 21 | deeper and more effective influence in the education of their
489 2, 12 | God, which man on his own initiative may not break, between the
490 3 | failure to undertake those initiatives and responsibilities which
491 2, 10 | With regard to man's innate drives and emotions, responsible
492 3, 21 | It helps them to repel inordinate self-love, which is the
493 2, 12 | Church, is based on the inseparable connection, established
494 3, 25 | of the law which united inseparably their love for one another
495 2, 10 | rightly enough, is much insisted upon, but which at the same
496 2, 9 | merely a question of natural instinct or emotional drive. It is
497 2, 8 | reality the wise and provident institution of God the Creator, whose
498 3 | the great international institutions. ~
499 2, 17 | reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of
500 3 | governmental policies, of an insufficient sense of social justice,
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