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Relationships And Families Flashcards

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Catholic teachings on sexual love

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Marital (within marriage)
“sexual act outside marriage is a grave sin”
- sex is a gift from God
- marriage is the deepest committment due to vows

Unitive (bonding/uniting)
"the two shall become one flesh"
- unites and deepens love
- become closer and more committed
- couple give themselves to each other

Procreative (open to new life)
“be fruitful and increase in number”
- God creates new life through sex
- more intensity when life-giving

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“God created humans in his image”

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  • human life most important thing to God
  • created men and women equal in his eyes
  • man and woman are complementary to each other and produce a harmony
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Catholic view - Sex before Marriage

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(Against)

  • should happen with the right person who you trust
  • there is less committment as no vows made
  • should only happen when there is possibilty of new life
  • devalues sexual act
  • makes couple feel more loved as in marriage they are truly devoted
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Contrasting view - Sex before Marriage

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(For)

  • everyone can have sex when they are ready
  • it is common and CC should modernise
  • if the relationship is good it’s fine as Jesus taught love is most important
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Conditions for Catholic marriage

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Consummated, declare wilingness to have children, vows said in front of a priest, not closely related, free to marry, out of own free will, give consent (I take thee…”)

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Nature of Marriage

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Sacramental - God part of it, shows holliness and closeness to God
“love of man and woman is made holy in the Sacrament of Marriage”

Permanent - lasting and until death, never ending
“till death do us part”

Exclusive - no other partners
“this ring as a sign of my love and fidelity”

Procreative - life giving, open to new life
“be fruitful and increase in number”

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Why is adultery wrong?

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  • breaks vows
  • breaks 10 commandments (do not commit adultery)
  • God was part of marriage - breaks sanctity of it
  • betrayal causing hurt and distress
  • makes other feel rejected and a failure
  • may cause breakdown of marriage - insecure for children
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Catholic view - Cohabitation

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(Against)

  • breaks sanctity of marriage and sexual love
  • reduces need for faithfullness
  • less committed as marriage has vows
  • marriage - less likely to separate due to prep
  • encourages promiscuity
  • marriage deepest committment - most secure for children
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Contrasting view - Cohabitation

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(For)

  • get to know each other, could prevent divorce
  • the only important thing for children is that the parents have a good relationship
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Catholic view - Divorce

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(Not recognised)

  • God part of marriage - breaks sanctity of it
  • couple vowed “till death do us part”
  • “everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery”
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Contrasting view (mainly CofE) - Divorce

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(For)

  • allowed as it’s a sign of God’s forgiveness
  • human nature that vows can be always kept
  • divorces more common in modern life
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Catholic view - Remarriage

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Can’t remarry unless partner has died. If they do, they can’t receive Communion.

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Contrasting view (CofE) - Remarriage

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Accepted as its a sign of God’s forgiveness and human nature that vows can’t always be kept. Shows God’s wilingness to give a fresh start.

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Acceptable reasons for annulment

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  • forced to marry
  • not consummated
  • didn’t intend on children
  • lies / concealment
  • incest
  • couldn’t give consent
  • didn’t understand vows
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Catholic view - Homosexuality + same sex marriage

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(Against)

  • cannot naturally procreate
  • it isn’t a sin and should still be loved - “love thy neighbour”
  • not properly marital or unitive
  • God wanted between man and woman (Adam, Eve)
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Contrasting view - Homosexuality + same sex marriage

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(For)

  • legal and accepted as part of modern society
  • can adopt and raise children
  • homosexuality isn’t a choice (scientifically proven)
  • Jesus never spoke about sexuality
  • CofE accepts civil partnerships
  • United Reform Church performs it
  • everyone has the right to marry who they want
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Catholic attitudes - contraception

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  • artificial is wrong as it goes againt God’s command to “be fruitful and multiply”
  • wrong as contradicts purposes of marriage and sexual love - to be unitive and procreative
  • NFP only one allowed by CC as possibility of pregnancy still remains if its what God plans
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Other attitudes - contraception

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(For)

  • All forms apart from morning after pill are acceptable as it’s a responsible way of planning family
  • should only have number could you can care for
  • God created sex for uniting couples as well as procreating
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Contraception (for)

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  • can prevent unplanned pregnancies and STDs
  • less children can help economy in developing countries
  • Bible doesn’t forbid contraception
  • most sexually active women use it
  • medically neccessary (Zika Virus - birth defects)
  • only have amount of children able to care for
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Contraception (against)

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  • “be fruitful and multiply”
  • can lead to promiscuity
  • morning after pill can cause an abortion which could be unethical
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Sanctity of Life

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Life is holy and precious as it comes from God therefore all life should be protected. Only God creates and ends life not humans.

  • Life starts at conception (sperm fertilises egg)
  • Responsibility to protect all human life - especially vulnerable
  • Best place to create life is in marriage so sex should be kept for marriage so life starts in an ideal setting
  • Holy spirt lives in everyone (temples of God) so destroying a life is destroying a place where God lives
  • Life is a gift from God and only he creates and ends it
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Theology of the Body

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  • nuptial meaning of body - person’s full meaning discovered through deep relationship woth opposite sex
  • couple bind together in one body - communion of 2 persons
  • sex is about deepening a relationship and giving yourself and not for personal pleasure
  • sex should be kept within marriage because if isn’t it damages its significance and people will tend to be selfish and break promises
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How is the family like a ‘church in miniature’?

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  • form a community
  • support each other’s development
  • contribute to society
  • share the mission of church
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Catholic teachings on family

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Education - parents first, most important teachers, role models who shape child’s views and morals

Pro-creation - family is best environment to bring up children, children centre of parents’ love

Authority - used carefully so child grows up into independent respective person to parents and society

Security - parents provide stable safe environment where everyone is valued equally

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Family - St Paul quotes

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Children to obey their parents
“Honour your father and mother”

Fathers to show love and not extreme discipline
“Bring then up in the discipline of the Lord”

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Dignity of working in the home

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Traditionally - mothers at home with children, fathers providing financially

Today - CC teaches they may have dofferent roles, bringing different qualities, roles can even be switched but still of dignity

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Gender equality in Bible

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  • “God creates humans in his own image, male and female he created them.”
  • “each of the two sexes has equal dignity, though in a different way.”
  • Mary mother of Jesus seen as perfect disciple
  • Mary of Magdala - announced Jesus’ resurrection to his male followers
  • (why women are important) only women can procreate
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Gender inequality in Bible

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  • all men were disciples
  • “wives submit to your husbands”
  • “husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies”
29
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Some roles women can have in CC

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Motherhood, Eucharistic Minister, altar server, nun, missionary, Cathecist

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Catholic views - female priests

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(Against)

  • 12 apostles were all men
  • acts in person of Christ so must be male
  • St Mother Teresa made an big imapct yet wasn’t a priest
  • The Church’s teaching is right for all times, shouldn’t change just because society is
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Contrasting view - female priests

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(For)

  • church must modernise
  • “neither male nor female, all one with Christ Jesus”
  • Jesus lived in patriarchal society, today we live in an equal society
  • many have accepted it e.g. CofE
  • Jesus’ mission was to spread the message around the world, this is difficult if only half the population can be priests
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Why do people discriminate?

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  • people take it on from family and friends
  • media sometimes portays negatively
  • poeple often look for someone to blame
  • some feel better by picking on others who are weaker than them
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Examples of gender discrimination

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  • gender pay gap
  • not allowing female priests
  • women only being able to vote from 1928
  • stereotypical view of working in the home
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Catholic view - discrimination

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(Against)

  • causes hurt to people and Jesus taught to love
  • can affect society as a whole
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Catholic view - single, same sex families

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(Against)

  • children may be bullied
  • harder to raise financially
  • CC against same sex as can’t procreate
  • harder to get balanced perspectives if single parent
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Contrasting view - single, same sex families

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(For)

  • child can still be loved
  • child can still get advice
  • child can still grow up to be open minded

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