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The Catholic Church teaches that sexual intercourse has a two-fold unitive and procreative purpose; [2] According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, "conjugal love ... aims at a deeply personal unity, a unity that, beyond union in one flesh, leads to forming one heart and soul", [3] since the marriage bond is to be a sign of the love ...
The Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches, in general, rule out ordination of married men to the episcopate, and marriage after priestly ordination. Throughout the Catholic Church, East as well as West, a priest may not marry. In the Eastern Catholic Churches, a married priest is one who married before being ordained.
In some Christian churches, such as the western and some eastern sections of the Catholic Church, priests and bishops must as a rule be unmarried men. In others, such as the Eastern Orthodox Church, the churches of Oriental Orthodoxy and some of the Eastern Catholic Churches, married men may be ordained as deacons or priests, but may not remarry if their wife dies, and celibacy is required ...
The Catholic Church teaches that human life and human sexuality are inseparable. [62] Because Catholics believe that God created human beings in his own image and likeness and that he found everything he created to be "very good", [ 63 ] the Church teaches that the human body and sex must likewise be good.
Outreach (formally known as Outreach: An LGBTQ Catholic Resource) is a Catholic news and opinion site for LGBTQ Catholics. The organization was founded by Jesuit priest James Martin in conjunction with America Magazine. The site features news stories, opinion pieces and resources pertaining to the Catholic Church and the LGBTQ community. [1]
The Catechism of the Catholic Church devotes a section to the topic of "conjugal love" (paragraphs 1643–1654). [3] The first paragraph of that section states: "Conjugal love involves a totality, in which all the elements of the person enter – appeal of the body and instinct, power of feeling and affectivity, aspiration of the spirit and of ...
The Catholic Church holds that marriage is a sacrament creating an indissoluble union between one man and one woman. [4] While the Catholic Church allows for the possibility of separation from a marriage in certain cases, [5] it does not recognize the validity of a subsequent marriage unless a declaration of nullity has been obtained regarding the first marriage [6] or the first spouse is ...
The Catholic Church teaches that chastity involves, in the words of cardinal bishop Alfonso López Trujillo, "the successful integration of sexuality within the person and thus the inner unity of man in his bodily and spiritual being", [6] which according to one's marital status requires either having no sexual relationship, or only having ...