Sentences with phrase «nature of the marriage»

To their credit, the American Catholic bishops, exercising their apostolic ministry, often boldly defend unpopular truths — about religious freedom, about the sanctity of life, and about the nature of marriage.

«As faithful citizens Catholics are called to bring our laws regarding marriage into conformity with what we know about the nature of marriage.»

Senior German churchmen have made clear that they believe something different from what's in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, whether the issue is the nature of marriage, the ethics of human love, the character of the Holy Eucharist and the priesthood, the authority of revelation, or the enduring effects of baptism.

Pundits can banter about one southern cook and the nature of racism in this continent, about the nature of marriage and truth and grace and orientation and the Church, and our screens can explode with opinions and rebuttals and politics.

Our Church has always taught that rejecting the gift of children erodes the love between husband and wife: it distorts the unitive and procreative nature of marriage.

On this account, to refuse marriage to gay couples is not to say that they may not marry (which might seem arbitrary and unjust) but simply that, given the very nature of marriage itself, they can not marry.

Similarly, while there may be some value in the refusal to take a moral stance on homosexuality — in order to focus squarely on the nature of marriage rather than on same - sex relationships — I am less than persuaded by the authors» moral judgment that people's sexual relationships are a private issue.

In the third seminar, the voices of Dante, Shakespeare, Soloveitchik, and Frankl join the conversation — new questions emerge: what is the nature of eros and what is the nature of marriage?

The conference will continue to address other topics relating to marriage; specifically addressing the nature of marriage itself which is being questioned so frequently in contemporary culture.

To work, therefore, this ruse requires another: having deceived oneself about the nature of marriage, one must now deceive oneself about the nature of love.

If our people do not learn from their teachers and shepherds the covenantal nature of marriage and the power of reconciliation in the Gospel, from whom will they learn?

Jesus answered evenly, speaking important truth about the earthbound nature of marriage which will give way to the greater life promised to the children of» the resurrection (that beautiful phrase, lost on those with no ears to hear).

His view emerged, by mistake, in the draft version of a speech in which he originally intended to describe as «bigots» all those who oppose the proposed legislation to redefine the nature of marriage.

The challenges we face today about the nature of marriage and family are serious.

It would be helpful if more Christians were aware of the benefits of the corporate nature of the marriage covenant.

This is the damage done to the nature of man and woman, and to the nature of marriage.

The requirement of love in marriage is not correlative to the intrinsic nature of marriage but is based on the admonition for Christians to love one another.

We must understand that if Christians and non-Christians differ over marriage, that difference does not lie in their understanding of the quality of interpersonal relationship needed to enter or sustain a marriage, but rather in a disagreement about the nature of marriage and its place in the Christian and national community.

She quotes from the teachings of the Catholic Church, such as Gaudium et Spes, on a whole range of issues from the sacramental nature of marriage to theimportance of the being open to new life.

A traditional Christian (or Muslim) regards a proponent of same - sex marriage as mistaken about sexual morality, the nature of marriage, and the will of God.

What an anulment says is that the sacramental nature of the marriage never happened.

This philosophy should be emphasized at these points and others during growth groups: in the publicity inviting participation — for example, «This retreat will have a double purpose, to provide opportunities for us to enrich our own marriages and to discover our capacities to strengthen and encourage each other»; during the establishing of the group contract, near the beginning, when the discussion focuses on the nature of marriage growth; during the evaluation — for example, «How did we support and encourage each other's growth?»

You capture the bittersweet nature of marriage and life so perfectly.

Together, both spouses will tell the kids honestly and openly about the changing nature of the marriage so that they don't have to wonder.

Baldry goes on about altering the basic nature of marriage, which delivers «no obvious legal gains given the rights already conferred by civil partnerships.»

«Such a change would alter the intrinsic nature of marriage as the union of a man and a woman, as enshrined in human institutions throughout history,» it argues in its submission to the government's consultation.

We therefore believe that if the government is to get to grips with immigration abuse, it must re-introduce a mandatory interview with an entry clearance officer at overseas Consulates in countries of concern to ensure the genuine nature of the marriage before a visa is issued.

This helps on the one hand because the couple has different backgrounds and such a match requires understanding, but on the other hand because the nature of marriage requires tolerance and respect for differences at all levels.

Some of the results are what you Despite (or because of) the MGTOW movement, feminism creating greater equality, and the wealth of options for single people, the nature of marriage has

The British side of Violet is well represented in the Oscar - nominated Jacki Weaver, who spins some honesty of her own regarding the nature of marriage.

45 YEARS A beautifully quiet and restrained film about the pain of missed opportunities, the potency of memory and nostalgia, and the true nature of marriage.

The film spends much of its running time detailing second - and third - hand accounts of Crist's alleged appetites, the whispered - about nature of his marriages.

For with every theme Ross presents — the Hitchcockian fallen hero, the classic «wrong man» trope, the Möbius strips and Escher imagery that emerge again and again, lest we forget the unending nature of marriage, love and murder — there is a way in which this too - clever - to - be-neat story resists such thematics, indeed calls into question the expectation / fulfillment nature of storytelling itself.

Landau also analyzes the narrative and stylistic tensions in Bill's images of women and couples, which may reflect his feelings about the fraught nature of his marriage to Elaine.

These particular affidavits generally address: (1) whether marriage has been an exclusively heterosexual institution over time and across cultures; (2) the evolving nature of marriage in Canada; (3) whether the meaning of the word «marriage» is capable of including same - sex couples; and (4) the results of research regarding lesbian and gay parenting.

To help anyone contemplating or currently going through a divorce get a better grasp on the situation, following are some statistics that highlight the nature of marriage break ups across the nation, in New England and in Massachusetts.

As the nature of marriage becomes more complex with partners bringing assets, income, and property into a union on an increasingly equal basis, the decision to award one party support or a larger share of communal property is no longer a simple equation — time put into a union against lost income — or any similarly simplistic comparison.

Insanity; a spouse was insane or unable to understand the nature of marriage when he or she married.

For the purpose of proceedings under this Act, a union in the nature of a marriage which is, or has at any time been, polygamous, being a union entered into in a place outside Australia, shall be deemed to be a marriage.

Not exact matches

When we understand these two bookends of the Bible as framing the whole Christian mystery, the marriage of man and woman takes on its true nature as an image that points us towards our ultimate destiny marriage to God.

According to Jesus, marriages that appear to be the culmination of various decisions — at least for Christians — take on a whole new, mysterious nature.

Under pressure from powerful special interests who manipulate the language of «rights» and «freedom» in ways that contradict «the laws of Nature's God,» our atheocratic government now deems itself competent to rewrite the God - given definitions of marriage and the family.

So that the marriage union betwixt Christ and you is more than a bare notion or apprehension of your mind; for it is a special, spiritual, and real union: it is an union betwixt the nature of Christ, God and man, and you; it is a knitting and closing, not only of your apprehension with a Saviour, but also of your soul with a Saviour.

Ephesians 5:21 - 33's teaching on marriage is about changing that view of marriage to one of unity and love — the kind of love that could transform the authority - subordinate nature of first - century Ephesian marriages, into what God desires for marriage in the New Covenant: oneness, companionship and mutuality.

Fr Edward Holloway certainly saw marriage, and the nature of Man as male and female, as more than some accident of evolution.

There is little appreciation for the nature of conversion as an ongoing process made up of many steps forward and backward along the way; or, for marriage as only one option among a couple, or even a few, equally viable, equally «holy» alternatives for living out one's God - given vocation... I don't have to dig too deep into my own experience to recognize the hang - ups that this glorification of marriage and a one - time conversion experience can foster.

First, He makes this point to underscore that marriage, by its very nature, is a divinely - ordained institution — that the originator of marriage is the Creator Himself.

I have often thought, particularly when working in the diocesan marriage tribunal, that our acknowledgement of the fact of Original Sin gives us such a head start when it comes to understanding human nature, and why people act the way they do.

In redefining marriage and the family, the state not only embarks on an unprecedented expansion of its powers into realms heretofore considered prior to or outside its reach, and not only does it usurp functions and prerogatives once performed by intermediary associations within civil society, it also exercises these powers by tacitly redefining what the human being is and committing the nation to a decidedly post-Christian (and ultimately post-human) anthropology and philosophy of nature.

[1] «a conjugal act which is suitable in itself for the procreation of offspring, to which marriage is ordered by its nature and by which the spouses become one flesh», as the Code of Canon Law # 1061 § 1 puts it.