Catechism index

2391 If a husband, separated from his wife, approaches another woman, he is an adulterer because he makes that woman commit adultery, and the woman who lives with him is an adulteress, because she has drawn another's husband to herself. 177 Some today claim a "right to a trial marriage" where there is an intention of getting married later. However firm the purpose of those who engage in premature sexual relations may be, …
2392 IN BRIEF "Love is the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being" (FC 11).
2393 IN BRIEF By creating the human being man and woman, God gives personal dignity equally to the one and the other. Each of them, man and woman, should acknowledge and accept his sexual identity.
2394 IN BRIEF Christ is the model of chastity. Every baptized person is called to lead a chaste life, each according to his particular state of life.
2395 IN BRIEF Chastity means the integration of sexuality within the person. It includes an apprenticeship in self-mastery.
2396 IN BRIEF Among the sins gravely contrary to chastity are masturbation, fornication, pornography, and homosexual practices.
2397 IN BRIEF The covenant which spouses have freely entered into entails faithful love. It imposes on them the obligation to keep their marriage indissoluble.
2398 IN BRIEF Fecundity is a good, a gift and an end of marriage. By giving life, spouses participate in God's fatherhood.
2399 IN BRIEF The regulation of births represents one of the aspects of responsible fatherhood and motherhood. Legitimate intentions on the part of the spouses do not justify recourse to morally unacceptable means (for example, …
2400 IN BRIEF Adultery, divorce, polygamy, and free union are grave offenses against the dignity of marriage. Previous - Next Copyright © Libreria Editrice Vaticana
2401 You shall not steal. 185 The seventh commandment forbids unjustly taking or keeping the goods of one's neighbor and wronging him in any way with respect to his goods. It commands justice and charity in the care …
2402 I. The Universal Destination and the Private Ownership of Goods In the beginning God entrusted the earth and its resources to the common stewardship of mankind to take care of them, master them by labor, and enjoy their fruits. 186 The goods …
2403 I. The Universal Destination and the Private Ownership of Goods The right to private property, acquired by work or received from others by inheritance or gift, does not do away with the original gift of the earth to the whole of mankind. …
2404 I. The Universal Destination and the Private Ownership of Goods "In his use of things man should regard the external goods he legitimately owns not merely as exclusive to himself but common to others also, in the sense that they can benefit …
2405 I. The Universal Destination and the Private Ownership of Goods Goods of production - material or immaterial - such as land, factories, practical or artistic skills, oblige their possessors to employ them in ways that will benefit the greatest number. Those who …
2406 I. The Universal Destination and the Private Ownership of Goods Political authority has the right and duty to regulate the legitimate exercise of the right to ownership for the sake of the common good. 188
2407 II. Respect for Persons and Their Goods In economic matters, respect for human dignity requires the practice of the virtue of temperance, so as to moderate attachment to this world's goods; the practice of the virtue of justice, to …
2408 II. Respect for Persons and Their Goods The seventh commandment forbids theft, that is, usurping another's property against the reasonable will of the owner. There is no theft if consent can be presumed or if refusal is contrary to …
2409 II. Respect for Persons and Their Goods Even if it does not contradict the provisions of civil law, any form of unjustly taking and keeping the property of others is against the seventh commandment: thus, deliberate retention of goods …
2410 II. Respect for Persons and Their Goods Promises must be kept and contracts strictly observed to the extent that the commitments made in them are morally just. A significant part of economic and social life depends on the honoring …