“Marriage: Passion, Friendship & Vocation”, by Gabriel M. Walz (2015). School of Divinity Master’s Theses and Projects. 11. Available in pdf format at University of St. Thomas, and at CORE.
Pastoral Letter on Chastity, by Bishop Joseph F. Martino, Diocese of Scranton, December 8, 2004. May be read online on this page at Catholic Culture. Excerpts are provided on: USCCB Forum, Vol. 16, Nos. 1-2 (Winter/Spring 2005): 3-5, which is available in pdf format at the United States Conference on Catholic Bishops.
Pastoral Letter to Young People on Chastity, by the Episcopal Commission for Doctrine, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, January 2011. Updated March 2011. Available in pdf format on this page of the Diocese of London.
“Teologiczne rozumienie małżeństwa osób ochrzczonych a niewierzących” (“Theological Understanding of Marriage among the Baptized Non-Believers”), by Professor Rev. Krzysztof Góźdź, Roczniki Teologiczne, Tom LXVI, zeszyt 2 / Vol. 66, Issue 2 (2019): pp. 19-34. Available in pdf format (Polski) through this page of Volume 66.2 of Roczniki Teologiczne / Annals of Theology.
“The Sacramental Character of Faith: Consequences for the Question of the Relation between Faith and Marriage”, by Professor Rev. José Granados, Communio, Vol. 41, No. 2 (Summer 2014). Available in pdf format through this page of Communio and on this page of Academia.edu.
Preparation for Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary for Families, All Done in Union with St. Joseph, according to St. Louis De Montfort, with 40 Daily Meditations by Pope John Paul II, 4th edition, compiled and edited by Jerome F. Coniker (Bloomingdale, OH: Apostolate for Family Consecration, 2009). With Imprimatur. The ebook may be read online at Yumpu.
“Humanae Vitae and the Perfection of Love”, by Prof. David S. Crawford, M.T.S., S.T.L., S.T.D., Communio, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Fall 1998): pp. 414-433. Available in pdf format through this page of Communio.
“For God, the Lord of life, has conferred on men the surpassing ministry of safeguarding life in a manner which is worthy of man…. Hence when there is question of harmonizing conjugal love with the responsible transmission of life, the moral aspects of any procedure does not depend solely on sincere intentions or on an evaluation of motives, but must be determined by objective standards. These, based on the nature of the human person and his acts, preserve the full sense of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love. Such a goal cannot be achieved unless the virtue of conjugal chastity is sincerely practiced. Relying on these principles, sons of the Church may not undertake methods of birth control which are found blameworthy by the teaching authority of the Church in its unfolding of the divine law.” (Second Vatican Council, Pastoral Constitution “Gaudium et Spes”, 51)
“’Mystically Espoused to Christ, the Son of God (c. 604 §1)’: The Basis for Proposing Juridic Principles to Guide the Development of Norms for the Ordo virginum”, by Judith M. Stegman, CPA, JSD. Dissertation, School of Canon Law, Catholic University of America (2019). Available in pdf format on this page of the Catholic University of America.
Note: This text is a dissertation best suited for specialists and advanced students of canon law and theology. General or lay readers are invited to read, instead or in preparation, the following text by the same author:
“Conscience and the Relation between Truth and Pastoral Practice: Moral Theology and the Problem of Modernity”, by Professor David L. Schindler, Ph.D., Communio, Volume 46.2 (Summer 2019): pp. 333-385. Available in pdf format through this page of Communio.
“It… seems urgently necessary to recover the authentic concept of authority, not only from the formal juridical standpoint, but more profoundly, as a means of guaranteeing, safeguarding and guiding the Christian community in fidelity to and continuity with Tradition, to make it possible for believers to be in contact with the preaching of the Apostles and with the source of the Christian reality itself.” (Saint John Paul the Great, Address to Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
November 24, 1995)
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