3.6: Marriage in the
New Covenant 1
New Covenant 1
The function of the sexual act with the purpose of giving rise to new human life.
What is the procreative function?
The function of the sexual act with the purpose of bringing the spouses closer together for love of God.
What is the unitive function?
The place where a Catholic marriage must take place.
What is a Catholic Church.
Living as husband and wife, under one roof, outside of the context of marriage.
What is cohabitation?
The formal recognition by the Church that a valid marriage was never contracted.
What is an annulment?
The philosophical term for the what-it's-for-ness of a thing.
What is nature?
Marriage and Baptism are sacraments which form this type of relationship.
What is a covenant?
This person must grant permission for a Catholic to marry a non-Catholic.
Who is a Bishop?
The amount by which likelihood of divorce increases for couples who live together before marriage.
What is 50%?
This can be justified in cases of legal necessity or danger to the spouse or children.
What is civil divorce?
The conception of a child in a laboratory, divorced from the sexual embrace.
What is In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)?
The practice of tracking a woman’s menstrual cycle to know when she is most fertile.
What is Natural Family Planning (NFP)?
The term for the priest or deacon and others who must be present for a wedding to be valid.
What is a witness?
The body which marriage, like all permanent vocations, is meant to serve first and foremost.
What is the Church?
The term for a non-sacramental marriage (one or both of the spouses are unbaptized).
What is a natural marriage/union?
The functions of the sexual act which contraception violates.
What is the procreative function.
The functions of the sexual act which IVF violates.
What is the unitive function?
The ministers of the sacrament of marriage.
Who are the spouses?
The sin of deliberately entering into a situation where one is reasonably likely to fall into sin.
What is the near occasion of sin?
If a non-baptized person in a natural marriage converts to the faith and is abandoned by their spouse, they may remarry a baptized Catholic.
What is the Pauline Privilege?
This name of God mirrors how third person proceeds from the love between two spouses.
What is the Trinity?
This name for the family unit emphasizes how a husband is called to be Christ and die to his wife, the Church.
What is the Domestic Church?
The words which, when spoken, confer upon the spouses the sacrament of matrimony.
What are vows?
The term describing something that is always wrong in every circumstance.
What is intrinsically evil?
If a baptized person marries an unbaptized person, and the marriage ends in divorce, the Pope can personally set aside the marriage.