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Vademecum for confessors of morality of conjugal life

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  • INTRODUCTION
    • 1. Aim of the Document
  1: ) Vatican Council II, Decree on the Apostolate of Lay People Apostolicam Actuositatem, November 18[...]
  2: ) John Paul II, Apost. Exhort. Familiaris Consortio, November 22, 1981, n. 3.
  3: ) Cf. John Paul II, Apost. Exhort. Familiaris Consortio, November 22, 1981, n. 58.
  4: ) Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Past. Const. on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium at Spe[...]
  5: ) John Paul II, Enc. Dives in Misericordia, November 30, 1980, n. 13.
  6: ) 2 The abortifacient effect of new pharmaceutical products must be borne in mind. Cf. John Paul I[...]



  • INTRODUCTION
    • 2. Conjugal Chastity in the Doctrine of the Church
  7: ) 2 Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Past. Const. on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium [...]
  8: ) 2 Catechism of the Catholic Church, October 11, 1992, n. 2337.
  9: ) 2 Ibid.
  10: ) 3 Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Past. Const. on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et S[...]
  11: ) Paul VI, Enc. Humanae Vitae, July 25, 1968, n. 12.
  12: ) Pius XI, Enc. Casti Connubii, December 31, 1930.
  13: ) Pius XII, Allocution to the Congress of the Catholic Union of Italian Midwives, October 2, 1951;[...]
  14: ) Paul VI, Enc. Humanae Vitae, July 25, 1968.
  15: ) 3 John Paul II, Apost. Exhort. Familiaris Consortio, November 22, 1981.
  16: ) 3 John Paul II, Letter to Families Gratissimam Sane, February 2, 1994.
  17: ) 3 Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Past. Const. on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et S[...]
  18: ) 3 Catechism of the Catholic Church, October 11, 1992.



  • INTRODUCTION
    • 3. The 'Goods' of Marriage and the Gift of Self
  19: ) 3 Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Past. Const. on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium [...]
  20: ) John Paul II, Apost. Exhort. Familiaris Consortio, November 22, 1981, n. 32.
  21: ) Cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 2378; cf. John Paul II, Letter to Families Gratissimam [...]
  22: ) 3 John Paul II, Apost. Exhort. Familiaris Consortio, November 22, 1981, n. 32.



  • VADEMECUM FOR THE USE OF CONFESSORS
    • 1. Holiness in Marriage
  23: ) "The forms and tasks of life are many but holiness is one—that sanctity which is cultivated by a[...]
  24: ) "Charity is the soul of the holiness to which all are called" (Catechism of the Catholic Church,[...]
  25: ) Cf. John Paul II, Apost. Exhort. Familiaris Consortio, November 22, 1981, n. 13. "Keeping God's [...]
  26: ) "To acknowledge one's sin, indeed—penetrating still more deeply into the consideration of one's [...]
  27: ) "Christian spouses and parents are included in the universal call to sanctity. For them this cal[...]



  • VADEMECUM FOR THE USE OF CONFESSORS
    • 2. The Teaching of the Church on Responsible Procreation
  28: ) 3 "But the Church firmly believes that human life, even if weak and suffering, is always a splen[...]
  29: ) John Paul II, Letter to Families Gratissimam Sane, February 2, 1994, n. 9.
  30: ) "God himself said: 'It is not good that man should be alone' (Gen 2:18), and 'from the beginning[...]
  31: ) John Paul II, Enc. Evangelium Vitae, March 25, 1995, n. 43; cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Counci[...]
  32: ) "Married couples should regard it as their proper mission to transmit human life and to educate [...]
  33: ) The Encyclical Humanae Vitae declares as illicit "every action which, either in anticipation of [...]
  34: ) "The human being must be respected and treated as a person from his conception. Therefore, from [...]
  35: ) "If, then, there are serious motives to space out births, which derive from the physical or psyc[...]



  • VADEMECUM FOR THE USE OF CONFESSORS
    • 3. Pastoral Guidelines for Confessors
  36: ) 3 John Paul II, Enc. Dives in Misericordia, Nov. 30, 1980, n. 6.
  37: ) "Just as at the altar where he celebrates the Eucharist and just as in each one of the sacrament[...]
  38: ) Cf. Congregation of the Holy Office, Normae quaedam de agendi ratione confessariorum circa sextu[...]
  39: ) "The priest in posing questions is to proceed with prudence and discretion, with attention to th[...]
  40: ) Cf. Denzinger-Schönmetzer, Enchiridion Symbolorum, 3187.
  41: ) "Confession to a priest is an essential part of the sacrament of Penance: 'All mortal sins of wh[...]
  42: ) 3 "If—on the contrary—the ignorance is invincible, or the moral subject is not responsible for h[...]
  43: ) "Married people too are called upon to progress unceasingly in their moral life with the support[...]
  44: ) "In this context, appropriate allowance is made both for God's mercy towards the sin of the man [...]
  45: ) "If the confessor has no doubt about the disposition of a penitent who asks for absolution, abso[...]
  46: ) "Holy Church knows full well that not infrequently, one of the parties is sinned against rather [...]
  47: ) 3 Cf. Denzinger-Schönmetzer, Enchiridion Symbolorum, 2795, 3634.
  48: ) "From the moral standpoint, it is never licit to cooperate formally in evil. Such cooperation oc[...]
  49: ) "Yet this discipline which is proper to the purity of married couples, far from harming conjugal[...]
  50: ) For priests, "the first task—especially in the case of those who teach moral theology—is to expo[...]
  51: ) "With regard to the question of lawful birth regulation, the ecclesial community at the present [...]
  52: ) "Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This[...]
  53: ) It is to be kept in mind that the faculty to absolve in the internal forum in this matter belong[...]



  • CONCLUSION
  54: ) Cf. John Paul II, Enc. Dives in Misericordia, Nov. 30, 1980, n. 14.



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