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1 Vadem (25)| Splendor, August 6, 1993, n. 102).~"It would be a very grave
2 Vadem (44)| Splendor, August 8, 1993, n. 104).~
3 Vadem, 3,19 | absolve according to can. 1357, suggesting an adequate
4 Vadem (41)| the Catholic Church, n. 1456).~
5 Vadem (37)| the Catholic Church, n. 1465).~
6 Vadem, 3,15 | 15. Christian couples are witnesses
7 Vadem, 3,17 | 17. The pastoral practice of
8 Vadem (42)| the Catholic Church, n. 1793).~"It is possible that the
9 Vadem (38)| Decalogi praeceptum, May 16, 1943.~
10 Vadem (23)| Lumen Gentium, November 21, 1964, n. 41).~
11 Vadem (52)| Procured Abortion, November 18, 1974).~"The moral gravity of
12 Vadem (34)| Procreation Donum Vitae, Feb. 22, 1987, n. 1).~"Ever more clearly
13 Vadem (28)| Centesimus Annus, May 1, 1991, n. 39).~
14 Conclu | Vatican City, February 12, 1997.~Alfonso Card. López Trujillo~
15 Pre | are forgiven them" (John 20: 22-23). Through the outpouring
16 Vadem (30)| the Catholic Church, n. 2205).~"Cooperating with God
17 Vadem (52)| the Catholic Church, n. 2271; see Congregation for the
18 Intro (8) | Church, October 11, 1992, n. 2337.~
19 Intro (21)| the Catholic Church, n. 2378; cf. John Paul II, Letter
20 Intro (19)| Spes, December 7, 1965, n. 24.~
21 Intro (13)| Numerous Families, November 27, 1951.~
22 Vadem (47)| Enchiridion Symbolorum, 2795, 3634.~
23 Intro (12)| Casti Connubii, December 31, 1930.~
24 Vadem (40)| Enchiridion Symbolorum, 3187.~
25 Vadem (39)| Consortio, November 22, 1981, n. 33).~
26 Vadem (43)| Consortio, November 22, 1981, n. 34).~
27 Vadem (51)| Consortio, November 22, 1981, n. 35).~
28 Vadem (47)| Enchiridion Symbolorum, 2795, 3634.~
29 Vadem (28)| Centesimus Annus, May 1, 1991, n. 39).~
30 Vadem (23)| Gentium, November 21, 1964, n. 41).~
31 Vadem (31)| Vitae, March 25, 1995, n. 43; cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical
32 Intro (4) | Spes, December 7, 1965, n. 49.~
33 Vadem (53)| collegiate Penitentiary (can. 508), as well as to chaplains
34 Vadem (27)| Consortio, Nov. 22, 1981, n. 56).~"Authentic married love
35 Vadem, 3,13 | fact cannot resist. 46, 561).] This cooperation can
36 Vadem (53)| prisons and of voyagers (can. 566 § 2). Confessors belonging
37 Vadem (42)| Splendor, August 8, 1993, n. 63).~
38 Vadem (48)| Vitae, March 25, 1995, n. 74).~
39 Vadem (24)| the Catholic Church, n. 826). "Love causes man to find
40 Vadem (35)| Vitae, March 25, 1995, n. 97).~
41 Vadem (39)| Code of Canon Law, can. 979).~"Accordingly, the concrete
42 Vadem (45)| Code of Canon Law, can. 980).~
43 Vadem (46)| XI, Enc. Casti Connubii, AAS 22 [1930]~
44 Vadem (32)| born or yet to come, an ability to read the signs of the
45 Vadem (34)| contraceptives, in reality act as abortifacients in the initial stages of
46 Vadem, 2,5 | use of means which have an abortive effect, impeding the implantation
47 Vadem, 3,5 | imparted, however, in the absence of sufficient repentance
48 Vadem, 3,11 | exacting humanly impossible absolute guarantees of an irreproachable
49 Vadem (52)| beginning of life. No one more absolutely innocent could be imagined" (
50 Vadem (44)| general and a rejection of the absoluteness of moral prohibitions regarding
51 Vadem, 3,11 | the desire to strive to abstain from sinning again, notwithstanding
52 Conclu | is administered with an abundant availability of confessors.~
53 Vadem, 3,12 | penitent shows a willingness to accept the moral teaching, especially
54 Vadem, 1,2 | makes renunciation more acceptable, lightens the spiritual
55 Vadem (50)| souls. But this must ever be accompanied by patience and goodness,
56 Vadem (39)| from asking the name of an accomplice" (Code of Canon Law, can.
57 Vadem, 3,7 | of consciences is to be accomplished above all in catechesis
58 Vadem (37)| he makes present and who accomplishes the mystery of the forgiveness
59 Vadem (33)| conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of
60 Vadem, 2,6 | married life with common accord and full self-giving.~
61 Vadem (34)| rights of a person must be accorded to him, foremost among which
62 Vadem (39)| of Canon Law, can. 979).~"Accordingly, the concrete pedagogy of
63 Vadem, 3,18 | completed by catechesis. 52 Accurate illumination of consciences
64 Vadem, 3,1 | sufficient repentance and accuse themselves fully of grave
65 Vadem, 1,3 | 3. Human beings cannot achieve perfect self-giving with
66 Vadem (26)| no conversion without the acknowledgment of one's own sin, the Church'
67 Pre | With the experience he acquired both as a priest and a Bishop,
68 Vadem (35)| human sexuality, they are acting as 'ministers' of God's
69 Vadem (43)| support of a sincere and active desire to gain ever better
70 Vadem (32)| they must conform their activity to the creative intention
71 Vadem, 3,6 | where a relationship of actual spiritual direction exists,
72 | actually
73 Intro (1) | of Lay People Apostolicam Actuositatem, November 18, 1965, n. 11.~
74 Intro, 1 | specifically, this vademecum ad praxim confessariorum intends
75 Vadem (44)| good and evil in order to adapt it to particular circumstances.
76 Vadem (25)| ideal' which must then be adapted, put in proportion, aligned,
77 Vadem (33)| procreation impossible". And it adds: "To justify conjugal acts
78 Vadem (50)| only because of the reasons adduced, but rather because of the
79 Conclu | Sacrament of forgiveness is administered with an abundant availability
80 Vadem, 3,5 | The confessor is bound to admonish penitents regarding objectively
81 Vadem, 3,8 | demands, by means of prayer, admonition and exhorting them to form
82 Vadem (26)| showing this repentance, adopting a real attitude of repentance—
83 Vadem (23)| obeying the Father's voice and adoring God the Father in spirit
84 Intro, 1 | they can draw ever greater advantage from the practice of the
85 Vadem, 3,1 | fully of grave sins; d) advice which inspire all, in a
86 Vadem (35)| periods to manifest their affection and to safeguard their mutual
87 Intro, 1 | Reconciliation, in which doctrinal affirmations confront concrete human
88 Vadem (52)| first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every
89 Vadem (28)| the 'no' which assails and afflicts the world, she replies with
90 Vadem (39)| attention to the condition and age of the penitent, and he
91 Vadem (38)| Office, Normae quaedam de agendi ratione confessariorum circa
92 Vadem (42)| not be imputable to the agent; but even in this case it
93 Intro, 1 | of contraception and the aggravation of the entire phenomenon. 6
94 Vadem (50)| Christ, that all of you agree and that there be no dissensions
95 Vadem, 2,1 | preciousness of human life, and aided so that they may commit
96 Intro, 1 | 1. Aim of the Document~The family,
97 Vadem (51)| achieved by scientific research aimed at more precise knowledge
98 Vadem (34)| This is demonstrated in an alarming way also by the development
99 Conclu | City, February 12, 1997.~Alfonso Card. López Trujillo~President
100 Vadem (25)| adapted, put in proportion, aligned, they say, with the concrete
101 Intro (13)| Pius XII, Allocution to the Congress of the Catholic
102 Vadem (44)| this context, appropriate allowance is made both for God's mercy
103 Vadem (46)| cause he or she reluctantly allows the perversion of the right
104 | along
105 Vadem (37)| Just as at the altar where he celebrates the
106 Vadem (35)| without manipulation or alteration" (John Paul II, Apost. Exhort.
107 Vadem (50)| teaching on marriage without ambiguity. Be the first to give, in
108 Vadem (28)| splendor of that 'Yes', that~'Amen', who is Christ himself.
109 Vadem (32)| themselves who must in the last analysis arrive at these judgments
110 Vadem, 3,3 | questions on various virtues andor obligations in accordance
111 Vadem (28)| Paul II, Enc. Centesimus Annus, May 1, 1991, n. 39).~
112 | another
113 Vadem, 2,6 | This is true both from the anthropological and moral points of view,
114 Vadem (33)| action which, either in anticipation of the conjugal act, or
115 Vadem (50)| heartfelt plea of the great Apostle Paul: 'I appeal to you,
116 Intro (1) | Council II, Decree on the Apostolate of Lay People Apostolicam
117 Intro (1) | Apostolate of Lay People Apostolicam Actuositatem, November 18,
118 Vadem (52)| of procured abortion is apparent in all its truth if we recognize
119 Vadem (50)| the great Apostle Paul: 'I appeal to you, brethren, by the
120 Vadem (35)| inspired by reasons which may appear honest and serious. In reality,
121 Vadem (37)| truth and not according to appearances" (John Paul II, Post-Synodal
122 Vadem (37)| of sins is the Christ who appears as the brother of man, the
123 Vadem, 3,18 | responsible procreation concretely applicable, it is necessary that the
124 Vadem (51)| fertility known, respected and applied.~"A very valuable witness
125 Vadem, 3,8 | conjugal chastity. And this applies whenever it is foreseen
126 Vadem (49)| youths grow up with a just appraisal of human values, and in
127 Vadem, 3,11 | In accordance with the approved doctrine and practice followed
128 Vadem, 3,4 | and discretion, 39 without approving erroneous opinions.~
129 Vadem (33)| communion, they act as 'arbiters' of the divine plan and
130 Intro, 2 | numerous heresies which arose from the very beginnings
131 Vadem (23)| of a living faith, which arouses hope and works through love" (
132 Pre | priest and a Bishop, the Pope ascertained the importance of clear
133 Vadem, 3,16 | couples for marriage, are asked to maintain uniform criteria
134 Vadem, 3,1 | confessor should keep four aspects in mind: a) the example
135 Vadem (28)| himself. To the 'no' which assails and afflicts the world,
136 Vadem, 3,7 | it is always necessary to assist the spouses, also in the
137 Vadem, 3,15 | therefore be convinced, with the assistance of faith and even in spite
138 Vadem (30)| female" (Mt 19:4); wishing to associate them in a special way with
139 Intro (13)| della famiglia) and to the Associations of Numerous Families, November
140 Vadem, 1,2 | Spirit infuses in the heart—assumes and elevates human love
141 Vadem (28)| protected against the many attacks to which it is exposed,
142 Vadem (50)| that of dogma, all should attend to the magisterium of the
143 Vadem (26)| offenses, but becomes even more attentive and generous; when we realize
144 Vadem (51)| with the love of God the author of human life'" (John Paul
145 Intro, 1 | keeping with divine law, authoritatively taught by the Church. It
146 Vadem (32)| could determine in a wholly autonomous way the honest path to follow;
147 Conclu | administered with an abundant availability of confessors.~May priests
148 Vadem (35)| in the positive will of avoiding children for plausible reasons,
149 Vadem (37)| wounds, of the Father who awaits the prodigal son and welcomes
150 Vadem, 3,1 | moral misery, to sin";36 b) a prudent reserve in inquiring
151 Vadem, 3,2 | are sinners. Therefore, barring manifest proof to the contrary,
152 Vadem (30)| everyone 'born of a woman' is a bearer" (John Paul II, Letter to
153 Conclu | ministry on which the eternal beatitude of married couples depends,
154 Vadem, 2,1 | in all other instances of begetting 'on earth'".29~
155 | begin
156 Intro, 2 | which arose from the very beginnings of the Church. Willed by
157 Vadem (28)| 3 "But the Church firmly believes that human life, even if
158 Vadem (53)| can. 566 § 2). Confessors belonging to a mendicant Order or
159 Vadem (53)| internal forum in this matter belongs "ipso iure", as for all
160 Vadem (49)| effort yet, thanks to its beneficent influence, husband and wife
161 Vadem (35)| of God's plan and they 'benefit from' their sexuality according
162 Vadem, 1,4 | both human weakness and the benevolence and mercy of the Lord. Therefore,
163 | besides
164 Intro, 1 | fact, "the Lord, wishing to bestow special gifts of grace and
165 Vadem (49)| values. Such discipline bestows upon family life fruits
166 Intro, 3 | the transmission of life, betrays and falsifies the self-sacrificing
167 Vadem (37)| of the Good Samaritan who binds up wounds, of the Father
168 Vadem (35)| passion, and to respect the biological laws inscribed in their
169 Vadem (35)| serious motives to space out births, which derive from the physical
170 Vadem, 3,16 | Magisterium of the Church.~Bishops are to take particular care
171 Vadem (30)| his own creative work, God blessed man and woman with the words: '
172 Vadem (26)| at the price of his own blood, then we exclaim in gratitude: '
173 Intro, 3 | expresses the language of the body. 20 From the mutual gift
174 Intro, 2 | society itself, the natural bond no longer depends on human
175 Intro (6) | pharmaceutical products must be borne in mind. Cf. John Paul II,
176 Vadem (24)| something which can be neither bought nor sold, but only given
177 Vadem, 3,5 | 5. The confessor is bound to admonish penitents regarding
178 Vadem, 3,8 | towards living within the bounds of a life of faith, would
179 Vadem, 3,9 | of requiring a decisive break with sin together with a
180 Vadem (50)| Paul: 'I appeal to you, brethren, by the name of Our Lord
181 Vadem (51)| that love. This implies a broader, more decisive and more
182 Intro, 2 | by God and unable to be broken by man on his own initiative,
183 Vadem (37)| Christ who appears as the brother of man, the merciful high
184 Intro, 2 | God with creation itself, brought back to its primal origin
185 Vadem, 3,1 | inquiring into these sins; c) help and encouragement
186 Vadem, 2,2 | cooperators with the Lord in calling into existence a new human
187 Vadem, 3,19 | exists to have regard for the canonical norms. If repentance is
188 Conclu | February 12, 1997.~Alfonso Card. López Trujillo~President
189 Vadem, 3,16 | Bishops are to take particular care to be vigilant in this regard;
190 Vadem, 3,14 | Furthermore, it is necessary to carefully evaluate the question of
191 Vadem (27)| they have celebrated and is carried out concretely in the realities
192 Intro, 1 | faith and a concrete aid in carrying out God's plan in their
193 Vadem (28)| pessimism and selfishness which cast a shadow over the world,
194 Conclu | of pastoral renewal and catechetical deepening in the dioceses,
195 Vadem (27)| Authentic married love is caught up into divine love and
196 Vadem (24)| Catholic Church, n. 826). "Love causes man to find fulfillment
197 Vadem, 2,5 | been fertilized or even causing its expulsion in an early
198 Vadem (27)| the sacrament they have celebrated and is carried out concretely
199 Conclu | and realizing mercy is the celebration of the Sacrament of Reconciliation.~
200 Intro, 1 | and as "the primary vital cell of society",1 constitutes
201 Vadem (53)| ipso iure", as for all censures not reserved to the Holy
202 Vadem (28)| life" (John Paul II, Enc. Centesimus Annus, May 1, 1991, n. 39).~
203 Vadem, 3,17 | and if consultors and centres are made available to which
204 Vadem (35)| plausible reasons, seeking the certainty that offspring will not
205 Vadem, 3,8 | would not be prepared to change his own conduct, but rather
206 Vadem (52)| abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable.
207 Vadem (53)| can. 508), as well as to chaplains of hospitals, of prisons
208 Vadem (34)| also by the development of chemical preparations, intrauterine
209 Vadem (35)| for the moral law, they choose to avoid a new birth for
210 Vadem, 3,12 | the liceity of the methods chosen to distance or avoid a new
211 Vadem (37)| Penance, acts 'in persona Christi.' The Christ whom he makes
212 Vadem (38)| agendi ratione confessariorum circa sextum Decalogi praeceptum,
213 Conclu | Father's mercy!~Vatican City, February 12, 1997.~Alfonso
214 Vadem, 3,4 | asks questions or seeks clarification on specific points, even
215 Pre | ascertained the importance of clear and certain guidelines to
216 Vadem, 3,8 | bring such penitents ever closer to accepting God's plan
217 Vadem, 2,2 | precisely in their role as co-workers with God who transmits his
218 Vadem (35)| earlier.~"The Church is coherent with herself when she considers
219 Pre | the aid of the competent collaboration of professors of theology
220 Vadem (53)| and to the diocesan or collegiate Penitentiary (can. 508),
221 Intro, 3 | mutual gift of the spouses comes, as its fruit, the gift
222 Vadem (37)| physician who heals and comforts, the one master who teaches
223 Vadem (25)| gushing out from that act. The commandment of God is certainly proportioned
224 Vadem (48)| intention of the person committing it" (John Paul II, Enc.
225 Vadem (37)| high priest, faithful and compassionate, the shepherd intent on
226 Intro, 1 | perceives in a more urgent and compelling way her mission of proclaiming
227 Vadem, 3,18 | precious work of confessors be completed by catechesis. 52 Accurate
228 Vadem (32)| are not free to proceed completely at will, as if they could
229 Vadem (44)| understanding never means compromising and falsifying the standard
230 Intro, 1 | has greatly increased her concern to help the entire community
231 Vadem (25)| be a very grave error to conclude that the norm taught by
232 Conclu | CONCLUSION~Especially in these times,
233 Vadem (35)| the married couple are concordant in the positive will of
234 Vadem (50)| men. Having come not to condemn but to save, he was indeed
235 Vadem (35)| while at the same time condemning, as being always illicit,
236 Vadem (39)| discretion, with attention to the condition and age of the penitent,
237 Intro, 2 | documents of the Episcopal Conferences, as well as those of pastors
238 Vadem (49)| harming conjugal love, rather confers on it a higher human value.
239 Vadem, 3,3 | sacrament, those who have not confessed for a long time and manifest
240 Vadem, 3,6 | The penitent who regularly confesses with the same priest frequently
241 Vadem, 3,2 | penitents who approach the confessional taking for granted their
242 Vadem (32)| to follow; but they must conform their activity to the creative
243 Vadem (32)| and conscience ought to be conformed to the law of God in the
244 Intro, 1 | which doctrinal affirmations confront concrete human situations
245 Vadem, 3,9 | gradualness", not to be confused with the "gradualness of
246 Vadem (44)| acts, and it ends up by confusing all judgments about values" (
247 Vadem (53)| certain modern religious Congregations enjoy, by privilege, the
248 Intro (13)| Pius XII, Allocution to the Congress of the Catholic Union of
249 Vadem (41)| diligent self-examination are conscious must be recounted by them
250 Vadem (26)| includes detaching oneself consciously and with determination from
251 Vadem (27)| fortified and, as it were, consecrated for the duties and dignity
252 Vadem (26)| the Word made flesh who consented to redeem us at the price
253 Vadem, 3,6 | Christian virtues, and, in consequence, in the sanctification of
254 Vadem (33)| development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an
255 Vadem (33)| family or social well-being. Consequently it is an error to think
256 Vadem, 3,8 | ignorance, is certainly to be considered always valid, even in matters
257 Vadem (43)| overcome difficulties with constancy. And so what is known as '
258 Intro, 2 | with these, the Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes17 (1965)
259 Vadem, 3,17 | personal commitment, 51 and if consultors and centres are made available
260 Vadem (51)| joint exercise of periodic continence, have reached a more mature
261 Vadem (49)| human value. It demands continual effort yet, thanks to its
262 Vadem (34)| distributed with the same ease as contraceptives, in reality act as abortifacients
263 Vadem, 3,7 | from those errors42 which contradict the nature of conjugal life
264 Intro, 3 | total self-giving"22 and contradicting God's design of love, in
265 Vadem (33)| contraception, by an objectively contradictory language, namely, that of
266 Vadem (30)| beings into existence means contributing to the transmission of that
267 Vadem, 3,2 | different degrees, of a contrite and humbled heart (Psalm
268 Vadem (35)| obliges them in every case to control the impulse of instinct
269 Vadem, 3,15 | They must therefore be convinced, with the assistance of
270 Vadem, 2,2 | responsibility, since they become cooperators with the Lord in calling
271 Vadem (44)| An attitude of this sort corrupts the morality of society
272 Vadem, 2,3 | should seek appropriate counsel—to deliberate deeply and
273 Vadem (51)| doctors, experts, marriage counselors, teachers and married couples—
274 Vadem (27)| the themes of creation, covenant, cross, resurrection and
275 Vadem, 2,2 | transmits his image to the new creature that we see the greatness
276 Vadem (27)| themes of creation, covenant, cross, resurrection and sign" (
277 Vadem (23)| Christ, poor, humble and cross-bearing, that they may deserve to
278 Intro, 3 | children, who are a sign and crowning of their spousal love. 21~
279 Vadem (23)| one—that sanctity which is cultivated by all who act under God'
280 Vadem, 3,1 | themselves fully of grave sins; d) advice which inspire all,
281 Intro, 1 | and of God's plan in their daily life. It provides an illuminating
282 Vadem (41)| grievously and are more dangerous than those which are committed
283 Pre | practice. The doctrinal data, therefore, is the foundation
284 Vadem (38)| Holy Office, Normae quaedam de agendi ratione confessariorum
285 Vadem (37)| judge of the living and the dead, who judges according to
286 Intro, 1 | which make it possible to deal pastorally both with new
287 Vadem (38)| confessariorum circa sextum Decalogi praeceptum, May 16, 1943.~
288 Vadem (41)| last two precepts of the Decalogue; for these sins sometimes
289 Vadem, 2,3 | of their family, and to decide the concrete mode of realizing
290 Vadem (43)| values in their concrete decisions. They cannot, however, look
291 Vadem (52)| the Doctrine of the Faith, Declaration on Procured Abortion, November
292 Vadem (53)| to the Holy See and not declared, to any bishop, even if
293 Vadem (33)| Encyclical Humanae Vitae declares as illicit "every action
294 Intro (1) | Vatican Council II, Decree on the Apostolate of Lay
295 Conclu | for the Third Millennium, dedicated to Christ Jesus, the only
296 Vadem (49)| enemy of true love; and deepens their sense of responsibility.
297 Vadem (28)| this living 'Yes', thus defending the human person and the
298 Vadem, 2,4 | teaching is to be held as definitive and irreformable. Contraception
299 Intro, 1 | destroy it or in some way to deform it, and aware that the well-being
300 Vadem (33)| and they 'manipulate' and degrade human sexuality—and with
301 Conclu | mercy, revealed in a supreme degree in the Person of Jesus Christ,
302 Vadem (45)| is not to be refused or delayed" (Code of Canon Law, can.
303 Vadem (33)| a conjugal act which is deliberately made infecund and so is
304 Intro, 1 | represents a particularly delicate point in Catholic moral
305 Intro (13)| Union of the Family (Fronte della famiglia) and to the Associations
306 Vadem, 3,17 | love and on its joyful and demanding dimensions, its grace and
307 Vadem, 3,11 | against conjugal chastity, demonstrate the desire to strive to
308 Vadem (34)| that of abortion. This is demonstrated in an alarming way also
309 Vadem, 3,12 | frequents the sacrament and demonstrates trust with regard to the
310 Vadem, 3,11 | the confessor is to avoid demonstrating lack of trust either in
311 Vadem, 2,4 | it harms true love and denies the sovereign role of God
312 Vadem, 3,5 | constitute a motive for denying absolution; absolution cannot
313 Vadem (35)| space out births, which derive from the physical or psychological
314 Vadem, 2,3 | paternity and maternity are derived. This parenthood is called "
315 Intro, 3 | and contradicting God's design of love, in which it has
316 Vadem (35)| motives, procreation is not desirable, while making use of it
317 Vadem, 3,13 | help the other spouse to desist from such conduct (patiently,
318 Vadem, 2,2 | likeness of God, redeemed and destined, in Christ, to a Life of
319 Intro, 1 | numerous forces that seek to destroy it or in some way to deform
320 Intro, 1 | it, whenever it has been destroyed, or increases and perfects
321 Vadem (26)| presupposes and includes detaching oneself consciously and
322 Vadem (46)| seek to dissuade and to deter the partner from sin" (Pius
323 Vadem (26)| oneself consciously and with determination from the sin into which
324 Vadem (32)| at will, as if they could determine in a wholly autonomous way
325 Intro, 2 | and theologians who have developed the subject and given it
326 Vadem (34)| preparations, intrauterine devices and injections which, distributed
327 Vadem (35)| reality, there are essential differences between the two cases; in
328 Vadem, 2,1 | fatherhood and motherhood quite differently than he is present in all
329 Vadem (41)| which penitents after a diligent self-examination are conscious
330 Vadem, 3,17 | its joyful and demanding dimensions, its grace and personal
331 Vadem (53)| only titular, and to the diocesan or collegiate Penitentiary (
332 Conclu | catechetical deepening in the dioceses, and specifically in shrines
333 Vadem, 3,6 | relationship of actual spiritual direction exists, even if this name
334 Vadem, 3,18 | order to render the moral directives concerning responsible procreation
335 Vadem (32)| forbidden to use methods disapproved of by the teaching authority
336 Intro, 2 | of Pius XI, 12 numerous discourses of Pius XII, 13 the Encyclical
337 Intro, 1 | and to overcome possible discrepancies and uncertainties in the
338 Vadem (33)| and so is intrinsically dishonest could be made honest and
339 Vadem (30)| results from it is directed to disposing the spouses to cooperate
340 Vadem, 3,11 | the grace of God or in the dispositions of the penitent, by exacting
341 Vadem, 3,10 | realize that there is a "disproportion" between the moral law,
342 Vadem (50)| agree and that there be no dissensions among you, but that you
343 Vadem (46)| does not neglect to seek to dissuade and to deter the partner
344 Vadem, 3,12 | of the methods chosen to distance or avoid a new birth.~
345 Vadem, 3,13 | place, it is necessary to distinguish cooperation in the proper
346 Vadem (34)| devices and injections which, distributed with the same ease as contraceptives,
347 Vadem (32)| correct judgments through docile respect for God and common
348 Vadem (50)| morals as well as in that of dogma, all should attend to the
349 Vadem (23)| Vatican Ecumenical Council, Dogmatic Const. on the Church Lumen
350 Vadem (25)| are we speaking? Of man dominated by concupiscence or of man
351 Vadem (25)| liberated our liberty from the domination of concupiscence. And if
352 | done
353 Vadem (34)| the Dignity of Procreation Donum Vitae, Feb. 22, 1987, n.
354 Vadem, 3,10 | secure road by which the doors to God's mercy will be opened. 44~
355 Vadem, 3,19 | recourse, possibly offering to draft and forward it himself. 53~
356 Intro, 1 | penitents so that they can draw ever greater advantage from
357 Vadem (32)| criteria must be used, criteria drawn from the nature of the human
358 Vadem (27)| family spirituality that draws its inspiration from the
359 Vadem (49)| partner, helps both parties to drive out selfishness, the enemy
360 | during
361 Vadem, 2,3 | educators. Certainly it is a duty of married couples—who,
362 Vadem (35)| which have been recalled earlier.~"The Church is coherent
363 Vadem, 2,5 | causing its expulsion in an early stage of pregnancy. 34~
364 Vadem, 2,1 | instances of begetting 'on earth'".29~
365 Vadem (34)| distributed with the same ease as contraceptives, in reality
366 Vadem, 3,6 | This certainly will be easier where a relationship of
367 Vadem, 3,17 | to which confessors could easily refer penitents in order
368 Vadem (51)| lawful birth regulation, the ecclesial community at the present
369 Vadem (32)| In relation to physical, economic, psychological and social
370 Vadem (32)| transmit human life and to educate their children; they should
371 Vadem (35)| 1981, n. 32).~"The work of educating in the service of life involves
372 Vadem, 2,3 | attention to their role as educators. Certainly it is a duty
373 Pre | outpouring of the Spirit effected by Christ, the Church continues
374 Vadem (27)| result that the spouses are effectively led to God and are helped
375 Vadem (49)| having a deeper and more efficacious influence in the education
376 Intro, 1 | indispensable elements for the elevation and the fulness of conjugal
377 Vadem (52)| elements involved. The one eliminated is a human being at the
378 Vadem (43)| generous willingness to embody these values in their concrete
379 Vadem, 3,1 | all, in a gradual way, to embrace the path of holiness.~
380 Vadem, 2,5 | the implantation of the embryo which has just been fertilized
381 Vadem (34)| Ever more clearly there emerges the strict connection which,
382 Vadem, 2,3 | documents of the Church, to emphasize the awareness and generosity
383 Vadem, 3,1 | these sins; c) help and encouragement to the penitents so that
384 Vadem (43)| sexuality, and that they should endeavour to establish the conditions
385 Vadem (49)| drive out selfishness, the enemy of true love; and deepens
386 Pre | ideal unaccompanied by the energy with which to carry it out.
387 Vadem, 2,2 | Saviour, who through them will enlarge and enrich his own family
388 Vadem, 3,3 | chastity in general, to enlighten them so that they can understand
389 | enough
390 Vadem (33)| honest and right by the ensemble of a fecund conjugal life" (
391 Vadem (43)| knowledge of the values enshrined in and fostered by the law
392 Vadem, 3,5 | transgressions of God's law and to ensure that they truly desire absolution
393 Intro, 2 | children that God wishes to entrust to them. Both for the good
394 Vadem (51)| wrote: 'To them the Lord entrusts the task of making visible
395 Intro, 2 | are some documents of the Episcopal Conferences, as well as
396 Vadem, 3,10 | the human capacity. They equally understand that the recognition
397 Vadem (43)| they should endeavour to establish the conditions necessary
398 Vadem (32)| the objective moral order established by God, of which a right
399 Vadem, 2,3 | the Christian's joy and esteem for paternity and maternity
400 Vadem (32)| level, and, finally, an estimation of the good of the family,
401 Vadem, 2,3 | has in itself a value of eternity, and to call attention to
402 Pre | and the presentation of an ethical ideal unaccompanied by the
403 Vadem, 3,14 | is necessary to carefully evaluate the question of cooperation
404 Vadem (32)| the good intention and the evaluation of motives into account;
405 Intro, 2 | contribution for the new evangelization of the family.~
406 Intro, 1 | Reconciliation represents a salvific event of the greatest importance
407 | everyone
408 Pre | doctrine on these subjects.~"To evoke conversion and penance in
409 Vadem, 3,11 | dispositions of the penitent, by exacting humanly impossible absolute
410 Vadem (26)| of his own blood, then we exclaim in gratitude: 'Yes, the
411 Vadem (32)| responsible parenthood is exercised, either by the deliberate
412 Pre | Splendor, and by the Apostolic Exhortations, Familiaris Consortio and
413 Vadem, 3,8 | of prayer, admonition and exhorting them to form their consciences,
414 Vadem, 3,13 | proportionally grave reasons exist for cooperating in the sin
415 Vadem (51)| responsibility of all—doctors, experts, marriage counselors, teachers
416 Vadem (28)| many attacks to which it is exposed, and can develop in accordance
417 Vadem (50)| teach moral theology—is to expound the Church's teaching on
418 Intro, 2 | issued various documents expounding the principal moral truths
419 Pre | out. Rather it seeks to express itself in precise ministerial
420 Vadem (32)| creative intention of God, expressed in the very nature of marriage
421 Vadem, 2,5 | fertilized or even causing its expulsion in an early stage of pregnancy. 34~
422 Vadem (51)| decisive and wide-ranging extension of that research, it cannot
423 Vadem (43)| vocation is fulfilled to the extent that the human person is
424 Vadem (25)| situations can be difficult, extremely difficult, but it is never
425 Vadem (49)| serenity and peace, and facilitates the solution of other problems;
426 Vadem (49)| spiritual and sensitive faculties" (Paul VI, Enc. Humanae
427 Vadem (51)| that research, it cannot fail to call with renewed vigor
428 Vadem (44)| and to ask mercy for his failings; what is unacceptable is
429 Vadem (33)| open to life, but also to a falsification of the inner truth of conjugal
430 Intro, 3 | transmission of life, betrays and falsifies the self-sacrificing love
431 Vadem (44)| never means compromising and falsifying the standard of good and
432 Intro (13)| the Family (Fronte della famiglia) and to the Associations
433 Vadem (32)| simply follow their own fancy but must be ruled by conscience—
434 Vadem (27)| strengthened in their lofty role as fathers and mothers. Spouses, therefore,
435 Intro, 1 | weighed down with great faults. In this sacrament each
436 Vadem (34)| Procreation Donum Vitae, Feb. 22, 1987, n. 1).~"Ever
437 Vadem (35)| means directly contrary to fecundation, even if such use is inspired
438 Vadem (44)| the good, so that he can feel self-justified, without
439 Vadem (30)| he) made them male and female" (Mt 19:4); wishing to associate
440 Vadem, 2,5 | embryo which has just been fertilized or even causing its expulsion
441 | few
442 Vadem (50)| Christian people, that in the field of morals as well as in
443 Vadem (51)| respect for the structure and finalities of the conjugal act which
444 Vadem (32)| and spiritual level, and, finally, an estimation of the good
445 Vadem (37)| the shepherd intent on finding the lost sheep, the physician
446 Intro, 1 | necessary, in fact, to recall firm points of reference which
447 Vadem (28)| 3 "But the Church firmly believes that human life,
448 Vadem, 1,1 | All Christians must be fittingly made aware of their call
449 Vadem (26)| and death of the Word made flesh who consented to redeem
450 Vadem, 3,11 | approved doctrine and practice followed by the holy Doctors and
451 Vadem, 3,13 | be licit when the three following conditions are jointly met:~
452 Vadem (32)| to these principles, are forbidden to use methods disapproved
453 Vadem (34)| must be accorded to him, foremost among which is the inviolable
454 Vadem, 3,8 | this applies whenever it is foreseen that the penitent, although
455 Pre | Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive, are forgiven them" (John
456 Pre | Whose sins you forgive, are forgiven them" (John 20: 22-23).
457 Intro, 1 | that their conscience be formed, and that God's will be
458 Pre | a certain void has been forming with regard to implementing
459 Vadem (27)| Spouses, therefore, are fortified and, as it were, consecrated
460 Vadem (53)| absolve in the internal forum in this matter belongs "
461 Vadem, 3,19 | possibly offering to draft and forward it himself. 53~
462 Vadem (43)| values enshrined in and fostered by the law of God. They
463 Vadem (49)| solution of other problems; it fosters attention for one's partner,
464 Pre | data, therefore, is the foundation supporting this "Vademecum,"
465 Vadem, 3,1 | the confessor should keep four aspects in mind: a) the
466 Conclu | Council~for the Family~+ Francisco Gil Hellín~Secretary~
467 Vadem, 1,3 | truth of marriage, and, freeing man from all hardness of
468 Vadem (24)| nor sold, but only given freely and mutually" (John Paul
469 Vadem, 3,6 | confesses with the same priest frequently seeks something besides
470 Vadem, 3,12 | case of one who habitually frequents the sacrament and demonstrates
471 Intro (13)| the Union of the Family (Fronte della famiglia) and to the
472 Intro, 3 | the spouses comes, as its fruit, the gift of life to the
473 Vadem (49)| bestows upon family life fruits of serenity and peace, and
474 Vadem (32)| interpreters. This involves the fulfilment of their role with a sense
475 Vadem (26)| therefore, doing penance in the fullest sense of the term: repenting,
476 Vadem, 1,1 | faithful, must tend towards the fullness of the Christian life and
477 Vadem, 2,6 | couples, who, always remaining fundamentally open to the gift of life,
478 | further
479 Vadem, 3,14 | 14. Furthermore, it is necessary to carefully
480 Vadem (43)| sincere and active desire to gain ever better knowledge of
481 Vadem, 3,15 | Reconciliation, are indispensable for gaining mastery of self. 49~
482 Vadem (50)| such as the Lord himself gave example of in dealing with
483 Vadem (35)| rhythms immanent in the generative functions, for the use of
484 Vadem, 2,3 | emphasize the awareness and generosity of the spouses with regard
485 Vadem (35)| happens when the family is generously open to new lives, and when
486 Vadem (23)| Const. on the Church Lumen Gentium, November 21, 1964, n. 41).~
487 Conclu | for the Family~+ Francisco Gil Hellín~Secretary~
488 Vadem (27)| conjugal and family life. This gives rise to the grace and requirement
489 Vadem (33)| language, namely, that of not giving oneself totally to the other.
490 Vadem (28)| 30).~"It is necessary to go back to seeing the family
491 Vadem, 3,1 | which inspire all, in a gradual way, to embrace the path
492 Pre | possible. We are especially grateful to the Congregation for
493 Vadem (33)| not licit, even for the gravest reasons, to do evil so that
494 Vadem (52)| November 18, 1974).~"The moral gravity of procured abortion is
495 Intro, 1 | a salvific event of the greatest importance for accepting
496 Intro, 1 | pastors and lay people, has greatly increased her concern to
497 Vadem, 2,2 | creature that we see the greatness of couples who are ready '
498 Vadem (41)| sometimes wound the soul more grievously and are more dangerous than
499 Vadem (49)| little children and youths grow up with a just appraisal
500 Vadem (28)| constitutes authentic human growth. In the face of the so-called
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