Relationships And Family Flashcards
Genesis 1:27-28
“God created humankind in his image,in the image of God he created them;male and female he created them.”
Mark’s 10:6-9
“But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,and the two will become one flesh.’So they are no longer two, but one flesh.Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Pope John Paul II Theology of the Body
- “Sex outside marriage and adultery,leads people to be selfish,and tendency to break promises”
- “The human body,and sex are good.Sex outside marriage and contraception damage the significance of sex”
- “Unfaithfulness starts in the mind,we should avoid reducing people to sexual objects and not individuals”
Quote that shows sex before marriage is wrong
Sex in marriage is “a unity that,beyond union in one flesh,leads to forming on heart and soul”
Catholic teaching on homosexuality
Homosexual people “close the sexual act to gift of life”
Catholic views on same sex marriage
- Opposed as “be fruitful and multiply”
- Not in God’s plan (not a “true marriage”)
Catholic Views on contraception
- “instrinsically evil”
- “Be fruitful and multiply”
Why the Catholic Church does not recognise divorce?
- Vow “till death do us part”
- “What God has joined together let no man separate”
Quotes on gender equality
- “There is neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, slave nor free, for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Bible)
- “Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman” (Bible)
- “Man and woman are of same dignity and are of equal value” (Catholic Church)
Jesus attitude towards women
Referred to bent woman as “daughter of Abraham”
Catholic teachings on gender discrimination
- “God gave men and women identical dignity as humans.”
- “God loves every human for his or her own sake”
