Marriage: A Personalist Focus on Indissolubility

cf. The Code of Canon Law, c. 1057, Article 2.

John Paul II: Address to members of the American Psychiatric Association, Jan. 4, 1993: Osservatore Romano, Engl. Edition, Jan. 13, 1993, p. 4.

Gaudium et Spes, no. 12.

Covenanted Happiness: Love and Commitment in Marriage, Ignatius Press 1990, pp. 39–52; cf. “Procreativity and the Conjugal Self-Gift”: Studia Canonica 24 (1990), pp. 43-49.

cf. Denz. 1807.

cf. no. 1660 of the new Catechism; also c. 1055 of the Code of Canon Law.

cf. Burke C. “Marriage: a personalist or an institutional understanding?”: Communio 1992-III, pp. 287ss.

Insegnamenti di Giovanni Paolo II, V, 1 (1982), p. 1344.

So true is this point that many couples who no longer feel love for one another resolve to get on — for their children's sake. And the struggle this implies, hard though it is, gives them its own real happiness: far truer happiness, one can be sure, than the uneasy selfishness of the person who is ready to assert what he calls his rights to build a new life for himself, even at the cost of wrecking the one home that his children had the right to regard as their own.

Readiness to die for the truth out of trust for God, is a recurrent theme of Veritatis Splendor (cf. nos. 52, 76, 90ss, 102), which strikingly brings out the full challenge of Christian moral standards.

no. 20; cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 1648.