Sentences with phrase «which sacramental marriage»

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: «Divorce does injury to the covenant of salvation, of which sacramental marriage is the sign.

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The shift in our understanding of sex from a sacramental and life - changing encounter to the thing you do with your friends when you're bored has made all of our relationships shallower and made each of us less capable of the profound gift of self on which marriage is founded.

«Were we to separate legal and sacramental marriage, it would solve all sorts of problems, not the least of which is the growing discomfort that many of us have that legal marriage is available only to some responsible adults who are in monogamous relationships.»

Hence he can, for example, be of the opinion that the Church could give up the indissolubility of sacramental marriage just as well as the ecclesial form of contracting a marriage, or that she could change the very principles of sexual morality because formerly she took a different authoritative, though not definitive, view of their application, which will perhaps have to be revised.

To give an example: The Church may change and adapt to modern life certain principles of her human law according to which a Catholic must marry; but only a person of little theological knowledge would draw the conclusion that the Church could ever abolish the indissolubility of the sacramental consummated marriage if only there were enough protests.

The solution is a return to the pre-Constantinian practice of the Church in which a Church marriage is a purely sacramental matter, subject to the doctrine and disciplines of the Church, but without legal standing.

But we can see it in the way in which the exhortation turns marriage into something we aspire to rather than a sacramental reality we can rely on.