Relationships And Family Flashcards
What does Consummated mean?
It makes the marriage valid by partners having sex.
What is marriage?
Two people coming together in the eyes of God.
What is an Annulment?
A statement by the catholic church that there was no valid marriage in the first place.
What is Adultery?
Sexual intercourse between a married person and someone who is not part of the marriage.
What is the Sanctity of life?
All human life is sacred.
What is Gender prejudice?
The attitude that one gender is superior to the other.
What does consent mean?
Permission or agreement for something to happen.
What is remarriage?
When someone who is divorced marries a new partner.
What is gender discrimination?
Putting the attitude that one gender is superior to the other into action.
What is the catholic teaching of sexual love?
It should be unitive (Join people together) , Marital (For marriage) and Procreative (Sex should be open to creating new life).
What are three reasons why the Catholic Church teach that sex before marriage is wrong?
Sex should be marital
Sex should be procreative
Sex should be unitive.
What are the Catholic views on contraception?
Every act of sex should be procreate.
Couples should have the number of children they can care for
Natural family planning reduces the chances of conception but leaves the final decision to God.
What are some contrasting views of contraception?
They can stop the spread of STIs.
It can prevent unwanted pregnancies.
What are some catholic teachings on Homosexuals?
Sex should be open to creating new life.
They shpuld live celibate lives.
What are some catholic teachings on same sex marriage?
People are loved by God regardless of their sexual orientation.
Sex should be open to creating new life.
Three reasons why adultery is wrong?
It breaks the vows made in marriage.
Betrays trust in marriage
Can cause the breakup of marriage.
What are 6 marriage vows?
- To have and to hold.
- For better for worse.
- For richer for poorer
- In sickness and in health
- To love and to cherish
- I take you to be my husband/wife.
What are the 6 conditions for a valid catholic marriage?
- The marriage is consensual
- Couple must not be closely related
- Both people must be getting married by their own free will.
- The promises must be made in the presence of a catholic priest.
- Invalid until it is consummated
- Couple must be free to marry
‘God created humans beings in his own image; males and female he created them’ (Genesis 1:27). What are the two main meaning of this quote?
They are both equal, God created everyone so everybody is unique.
What are three teaching anout the human body from Pope John Paul II’s ‘Theology of the Body’?
- God loves all people, men and women.
- How we behave and treat people helps us become better people.
- God created men and women both are important.
What is Co-habitation?
Is when a couple who are not married live together.
What are some catholic views on cohabitation?
It breaks the sanctity of marriage,removes commitment from the sexual union and may reduce effort to make the relationship last.
What are some contrasting views on cohabitation?
The couple want to see if the relationship will work out, live together for financial reasons and are in same-sex relationships.
Under what conditions will the catholic church allow an annulment?
- The couple never had sexual intercourse.
- They didn’t freely enter into marriage.
- One partner continyes to have affairs.
