1644 The love of the spouses requires, of its very nature, the unity and indissolubility of the spouses’ community of persons, which embraces their entire life: “so they are no longer two, but one flesh.”151 They “are called to grow continually in their communion through day-to-day fidelity to their marriage promise of total mutual self-giving.”152 This human communion is confirmed, purified, and completed by communion in Jesus Christ, given through the sacrament of Matrimony. It is deepened by lives of the common faith and by the Eucharist received together.
1645 “The unity of marriage, distinctly recognized by our Lord, is made clear in the equal personal dignity which must be accorded to man and wife in mutual and unreserved affection.”153 Polygamy is contrary to conjugal love which is undivided and exclusive.154
151 Matthew 19:6; cf. Genesis 2:24.
152 FC 19.
153 GS 49 # 2.
154 Cf. FC 19.
- Catechism: Marriage under the pedagogy of the Law
- Catechism: Polygamy
- Catechism: The Celebration of Marriage
- Catechism: The Nature of the Family
- Catechism: The Love of Husband and Wife
- Catechism: Marriage in the Order of Creation
- Catechism: The Openness to Fertility
- Catechism: The Fecundity of Marriage
- Catechism: “Male and Female He Created Them…”
- Catechism: Communion in Spiritual Goods
Catechism of the Catholic Church: text - IntraText CT. (2012). Retrieved January 7th, 2012, from: http://www.intratext.com/IXT/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM