Family planning, divorce/annulment and remarriage, gender equality in the family also gender prejudice and discrimination Flashcards
Which Pope said that all forms of artificial contraception are wrong?
Pope Paul VI
It is the responsibility of the mother and father to regulate births and to not use immoral things like contraception
CCC 2399
Your not allowed to remarry
“whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery” Matthew 5:32
Divorce is not allowed
“I hate divorce, says the Lord the God of Israel” Malachi 2:16
God doesn’t want divorce to happen anyone who allows it is refusing to obey God’s law
Matthew 19:8
Marriage cannot be dissolved because God has joined them together
CCC 2383
A civil divorce can take place for the safety of everyone
CCC 2383
Couple stays married even if a civil divorce has taken place
CCC 2384
Jesus allowed divorce because someone was being adulterous
Matthew 5:32
He created both man and woman in his image
“male and female he created them” “in his own image” Genesis 1:27
Eve was created from Adam’s rib
Genesis 2:22
Both Eve and Adam are cursed for their disobedience
Genesis 3
Emphasizes the equality of men and women in the family
CCC 2207
What does the CC believe about domestic work?
“dignity of work within the home”
What letter was sent across the world and CC?
“Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Collaboration of Men and Women”
When was the equality act and what does it say?
2010 = it states Women, men and transgender people should not be treated unfairly because of their gender, because they are married or because they are raising a family.
Examples of how this law is broken:
- Job opportunities (more male referees in football/doctors/lawyers/army workers/ politicians/more female nurses than men)
- In families – man goes out to work, woman stays at home.
- Church of England: say you can’t have women bishops.
- Conservative Christians believe that the husband is the head of the home.
Women cared for the needs of Jesus while he was suffering
Matthew 27:55
Wives obey their husbands as they’re are in charge
Ephesians 5:22-24
Neither man nor woman has a special advantage in being a Christian
“there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ” Galatians 3:28
Women cannot speak within the Church
1 Corinthians 14
The Samaritan woman at the well
John 4:4-26
The woman taken in adultery
John 7:53-8:11
The Catechism teaches that sexual discrimintaion is ‘sinful’ and ‘open contradiction’ of the teaching of the Gospels
CCC 1938
Which Pope mentioned the man and woman being equal and complementary partners?
Pope John Paul II in the series of lectures known as the “Theology of the Body”
