Themes : Relationships and Families

Question 1

Sexuality, homosexuality

Answer 1

‘Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable’

Question 2

Sexuality, extra-marital sex

Answer 2

‘You shall not commit adultery’

Question 3

Sexuality, extra-marital sex
(teaching of the pope)

Answer 3

‘Every sexual act must be within the framework of marriage’

Question 4

Sexuality, contraception
(catholic teaching from pope)

Answer 4

‘Every sexual act should have the possibility of creating new life’

Question 5

Sexuality, contraception

Answer 5

‘Be fruitful and increase in number’

Question 6

Marriage

Answer 6

‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’

Question 7

Marriage/Nature of families

Answer 7

‘Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her’

Question 8

Nature of families, children

Answer 8

‘Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old’

Question 9

Nature of families, children

Answer 9

‘Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever’

Question 10

Gender equality

Answer 10

‘There is neither Jew nor Greek, neither slave nor free, nor is there male or female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus’

Question 11

Gender equality

Answer 11

‘In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them’

Question 12

Marriage, divorce

Answer 12

“What God has joined together, let no-one
separate”

Question 13

Marriage/gender roles

Answer 13

‘Women should submit to their husbands as they do to the Lord’