sex and religion

[Tominator]

Re: sex and religion

I don't know what priest you talked to, but sex in communion with marriage is for companionship too.

I copied this from Gaudium et Spes, or The Second Vatican Council.

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Marriage to be sure is not instituted solely for procreation; rather, its very nature as an unbreakable compact between persons, and the welfare of the children, both demand that the mutual love of the spouses be embodied in a rightly ordered manner, that it grow and ripen. Therefore, marriage persists as a whole manner and communion of life, and maintains its value and indissolubility, even when despite the often intense desire of the couple, offspring are lacking.

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http://ccli.org/nfp/morality/churchteaching.php

[slugshooter]

Re: sex and religion

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John, remember the Pope? Seems if my memory serves me there were some interesting posts in here not so long back after he passed discussing how some seemed to in a sense almost view him as something other than man?

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I know this is off topic, but I believe, and since I am not Catholic any Catholic members please correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that the reason the Pope is held in such high regard specifically by Catholics is that historically he is considered to be Christ's emissary here on earth.

[Tominator]

Re: sex and religion

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but I believe that the reason the Pope is held in such high regard specifically by Catholics is that historically he is considered to be Christ's emissary here on earth.

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Yep, the man has a direct line to God.

I think he carries that phone around in the Popemobile.