In the end one is forced to fall back on the distinction we used to make between the primary and the
accompanying ends of marriage and of the act of sexual communion.
BARCELONA can only really comment on the Spanish / Catalan social scene by looking from the outside in, and the main characters eventually «carry off the women» to a happy Shakespearean
ending of marriages in America.
The old Code of Canon Law (1917) stated that «the
primary end of marriage is the procreation and education of offspring; the secondary end is mutual love and support, and the remedying of concupiscence».
Far more is involved that the legal
end of a marriage because divorce upends the established order of family, friends, finances, work, and in some cases health and well being.
The billionaire has previously revealed his struggles with depression following the collapse of the once high - flying telco One.Tel in 2001, in which he and Lachlan Murdoch had been prominent investors, and the
subsequent ending of his marriage to Jodhi Meares a year later.
Instead, the Angelic Doctor insists that «the good of children is the
principal end of marriage» (Commentary on the Sentences, book 4, distinction 33, question 1, article 2, corpus).
This dual narrative ofthe one institution is of inestimable importance in showing the complementarity (and not the opposition) between the two ends of matrimony as taught by the Church: «the
twofold end of marriage: the good of the spouses and the transmission of life» [8].
Here let us quote the Patron of moral theologians, St. Alphonsus Liguori (1696 - 1787), who teaches, «The accidental
intrinsic ends of marriage are two: the procreation of offspring, and the remedy of concupiscence» (Theologiae Moral is, lib.
The
other end of marriage is no less evidently established in Genesis 1:27 - 28: «God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
It's a pre-requisite for having children, but it is by no means sufficient for raising those children or for fulfilling the moral and
spiritual ends of marriage.
TORONTO — After years devoted to dispensing financial know - how, Gail Vaz - Oxlade is delving into more personal territory to help a sizable demographic: individuals feeling adrift after the
abrupt end of their marriages.
In both cases, there are many issues you have to deal with including the potential or
inevitable end of your marriage and all the issues that both of you have to face as you come out or explain to your children, family members and friends.
The old Code of Canon Law (1917) stated that «the
primary end of marriage is the procreation and education of offspring; the secondary end is mutual love and support, and the remedying of...
His private life unraveled in late 2009 over allegations about affairs with several women and ultimately led to
the end of his marriage.
The end of the marriage was painful, but now Michael and I are able to be friends and even take vacations together with our children.
The same issue can thwart women who try to get on an income - driven repayment (IDR) plan after
the end of a marriage, said Dean.
Fleetwood Mac tells CBS This Morning that Lindsey Buckingham's departure wasn't a firing but more like
the end of a marriage.
Few of us would die in the breach for the formulation of
the ends of marriage as set out so tersely in the 1917 Code.
Since this couple has generously fulfilled one of
those ends of marriage (procreative), is it wrong to exclude the other (unitive)?
I am convinced that no divorced couple could go through the service for «A Recognition of
the End of a Marriage» without knowing that in the searing pain of human brokenness there is redemption, forgiveness, hope and the opportunity to seek a new fulfillment along a new path.
Then we prayed the «Prayers of the People,» culminating in these words which the congregation spoke together: «On behalf of the church which blessed your marriage, we now recognize
the end of that marriage.
It was, rather, A Service for the Recognition of
the End of a Marriage,» a liturgy designed to offer to God the pain of a divorce.
He threatened that if I did not the results would be
the end of our marriage and the resulting pain this would bring to our children.»
It's obviously about both (as the Church has argued for two thousand years, incidentally, teaching that the three
ends of marriage are procreation, marital friendship, and mutual sanctification).
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The ends of marriage are offspring, furthering the Catholic faith and the sacrament itself.
This is nothing new, of course, as social media sites like Facebook have been reported in divorce cases as contributing to
the end of marriages.
Also, if it can be proved that one of the parties never intended to have children, which is one of
the ends of marriage, this could also nullify the vows.
On that supposition, my main point is that the use (however longstanding) of the term remedium concupiscentiae to signify
an end of marriage has had a profoundly negative effect on married life, inasmuch as it suggests that lust is «remedied» or at least «legitimised» by marriage; in the sense either of automatically disappearing once one marries, or else of no longer being a self - centeredelement hostile to the growth of married love.
That one of
the ends of marriage is to remedy concupiscence has been the teaching of virtually all moral theologians, right down to the late 20th century, without this teaching being subjected to any true critical analysis.
Since 1983 the Church's magisterium has expressed
the ends of marriage as two: procreation, and the good of the spouses.
Statements like this appear frequently on the evaluation sheets of participants at
the end of marriage enrichment events: «We haven't communicated like this in years.
Cormac Burke FAITH Magazine July — August 2012 Mgr Burke continues to throw much needed light upon the 20th century's fine tuning of our understanding of
the ends of marriage.
Don't blame feminism for
the end of your marriage; feminism is what allows men to be stay - at - home dads and breadwinning wives.
But when local media picked up on the blog she started about the infidelity that led to
the end of her marriage, His Giant Mistake, Cleo (a pseudonym) took it and ran.
I've waded into the pool a few times since
the end of my marriage almost 2 years ago, and honestly at this point, a lifetime of being single is looking pretty goddamn good.
More than two years after a divorce, 41 percent of men said they were still sad about
the end of their marriage while just 33 percent of women felt the same way.
And if you wind up, despite what you expected or wanted or hoped, facing
the end of your marriage?
The continuum consists of the time when the new partner appears relative to
the end of the marriage.
I've dated off and on since
the end of my marriage almost two years ago, and I have never come close to being ready for my kids to enter the mix.