Catechism index

2331 I. "Male and Female He Created Them . . ." "God is love and in himself he lives a mystery of personal loving communion. Creating the human race in his own image . . .. God inscribed in the humanity of man …
2332 "God created man in his own image . . . male and female he created them"; 115 He blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and multiply"; 116 "When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created." 117 Sexuality affects all aspects of the human person in the unity of his body and soul. It especially concerns affectivity, the capacity to love and to procreate, and in a more general …
2333 "God created man in his own image . . . male and female he created them"; 115 He blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and multiply"; 116 "When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created." 117 Everyone, man and woman, should acknowledge and accept his sexual identity. Physical, moral, and spiritual difference and complementarity are oriented toward the goods of marriage and the flourishing of family life. the …
2334 "God created man in his own image . . . male and female he created them"; 115 He blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and multiply"; 116 "When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created." 117 "In creating men 'male and female,' God gives man and woman an equal personal dignity." 118 "Man is a person, man and woman equally so, since both were created in the image …
2335 "God created man in his own image . . . male and female he created them"; 115 He blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and multiply"; 116 "When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created." 117 Each of the two sexes is an image of the power and tenderness of God, with equal dignity though in a different way. the union of man and woman in marriage is …
2336 "God created man in his own image . . . male and female he created them"; 115 He blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and multiply"; 116 "When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created." 117 Jesus came to restore creation to the purity of its origins. In the Sermon on the Mount, he interprets God's plan strictly: "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not …
2337 II. The Vocation to Chastity Chastity means the successful integration of sexuality within the person and thus the inner unity of man in his bodily and spiritual being. Sexuality, in which man's belonging to the bodily and …
2338 II. The Vocation to Chastity The chaste person maintains the integrity of the powers of life and love placed in him. This integrity ensures the unity of the person; it is opposed to any behavior that would …
2339 II. The Vocation to Chastity Chastity includes an apprenticeship in self-mastery which is a training in human freedom. the alternative is clear: either man governs his passions and finds peace, or he lets himself be dominated by …
2340 II. The Vocation to Chastity Whoever wants to remain faithful to his baptismal promises and resist temptations will want to adopt the means for doing so: self-knowledge, practice of an ascesis adapted to the situations that confront …
2341 II. The Vocation to Chastity The virtue of chastity comes under the cardinal virtue of temperance, which seeks to permeate the passions and appetites of the senses with reason.
2342 II. The Vocation to Chastity Self-mastery is a long and exacting work. One can never consider it acquired once and for all. It presupposes renewed effort at all stages of life. 128 The effort required can be …
2343 II. The Vocation to Chastity Chastity has laws of growth which progress through stages marked by imperfection and too often by sin. "Man . . . day by day builds himself up through his many free decisions; …
2344 II. The Vocation to Chastity Chastity represents an eminently personal task; it also involves a cultural effort, for there is "an interdependence between personal betterment and the improvement of society." 130 Chastity presupposes respect for the rights …
2345 II. The Vocation to Chastity Chastity is a moral virtue. It is also a gift from God, a grace, a fruit of spiritual effort. 131 The Holy Spirit enables one whom the water of Baptism has regenerated …
2346 II. The Vocation to Chastity Charity is the form of all the virtues. Under its influence, chastity appears as a school of the gift of the person. Self-mastery is ordered to the gift of self. Chastity leads …
2347 II. The Vocation to Chastity The virtue of chastity blossoms in friendship. It shows the disciple how to follow and imitate him who has chosen us as his friends, 133 who has given himself totally to us …
2348 II. The Vocation to Chastity All the baptized are called to chastity. the Christian has "put on Christ," 134 The model for all chastity. All Christ's faithful are called to lead a chaste life in keeping with …
2349 II. The Vocation to Chastity "People should cultivate [chastity] in the way that is suited to their state of life. Some profess virginity or consecrated celibacy which enables them to give themselves to God alone with an …
2350 There are three forms of the virtue of chastity: the first is that of spouses, the second that of widows, and the third that of virgins. We do not praise any one of them to the exclusion of the others.... This is what makes for the richness of the discipline of the Church. 136 Those who are engaged to marry are called to live chastity in continence. They should see in this time of testing a discovery of mutual respect, an apprenticeship in fidelity, and the …