Sins Against
This refers to sexual relations between a married person and one to whom he or she is not married; it is opposed to marriage because it contradicts the unity and exclusivity of married love.
What is Adultery?
The Church continues to teach that all sexual activity between persons, including sexual intercourse, is reserved for this.
What is marriage?
This 1968 encyclical that reaffirmed and explained the Catholic Church’s teaching on God’s plan for married love and the transmission of life.
What is Humanæ Vitæ?
This is the practice of engaging in sexual intercourse based on the woman’s natural cycles of fertility and infertility.
What is Natural Family Planning?
This is the Patron Saint of Ireland.
Who is St. Patrick?
This is a civil dissolution of a marriage; it involves a deliberate attempt to break the lifelong commitment of fidelity and spousal love.
What is Divorce?
This refers to the moral expectation that a couple does not need to intend to have a child every time they engage in sexual intercourse.
What is the Intention?
This refers to any number of barrier or chemical measures used to prevent pregnancy which would result from sexual intercourse.
What is Contraception?
NFP can be used to postpone a new birth only for these kinds of reasons.
What are "serious" reasons?
This is the first Saint to have been born in what is now the United States of America.
Who is St. Elizabeth Ann Seton?
This is an attempted marriage between more than two people (one man and one woman) at the same time.
What is Polygamy?
This refers to the moral expectation that a couple must be open to the possibility of new life as a result of sexual intercourse.
What is Openness (to Life)?
The term contraception finds its roots in these two words (a Latin word, meaning this, and another word).
What is contra- (meaning against) and conception?
These methods of Natural Family Planning rely on the principle of counting cycle days to work out when a woman is most/least fertile.
What are Calendar Methods?
The Polish Saint, Karol Wojtyła, became prominently known by this name in his role as Pope.
Who is Pope St. John Paul II?
This usually involves a man and woman living together, availing themselves to sexual relations with each other, but with no intention of marrying.
What is Free Union?
This refers to the idea that a couple does not need to be physically able to conceive in order for sexual intercourse to be moral.
What is the Capability?
These are three issues that prompted the Church of the 1960s to reexamine the practice of regulating birth.
What are the issues of Urbanization, Population boom, and the Sexual Revolution.
These methods of Natural Family Planning emphasize the relationship between at least two of the primary signs of fertility (usually change in cervical mucus and Basal Body Temperature).
What are Sympto-Thermal Methods?
This North African Saint had once compared the indelible mark of Baptism to the relative unrepeatability of Holy Matrimony.
Who is St. Augustine?
Also known as cohabitation, this consists of a man and woman living together and having sexual relations, with the possibility of marrying in the future.
What is Trial Marriage?
This refers to the moral expectation that a couple must respect and preserve the meaning of the sexual act itself.
What is the Symbolic Structure?
This is the Pope (by name and number) that promulgated the encyclical Humanæ Vitæ.
Who is Pope Paul VI?
These methods of Natural Family Planning make use of fertility devices to help married couples pinpoint the woman’s time of fertility.
What are Sympto-Hormonal Methods?
This English-born Italian Catholic Saint was known for his devotion to the Eucharist and the use of digital media to promote Catholic devotion.
Who is Saint Carlo Acutis?