Church Documents on Marriage and the Family
In the Lineamenta issued by the Vatican earlier this year seeking comment for the upcoming Synod on the Family, a number of documents on the Church’s teachings on Marriage and Family were cited. These documents are gathered and linked here.
2015 Lineamenta documents
In the Lineamenta issued by the Vatican earlier this year seeking comment for the upcoming Synod on the Family, a number of documents on the Church’s teachings on Marriage and Family were cited. These documents are gathered and linked here:
- Gaudium et Spes # 52 (Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World)
- Ad Gentes (Decree on the Mission Activity of the Church)
- Familiaris Consortio (On the role of the Christian Family in the Modern World)
- Lumen Gentium (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church)
- Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life)
- Gratissimam Sane (Letter to Families)
- Deus Caritas Est (God is Love)
- Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth)
- Lumen Fidei (The Light of Faith)
- Nostra Aetate (Declaration on the Relationship of the Church with Non-Christian Religions)
- Redemptoris Missio (The MIssion of the Redemer)
- Address at Nazareth
- Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel)
- Novo Millennio Ineunte (At the beginning of the New Millennium)
- Dignitas Connubii (The Dignity of Marriage)
- Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons
- Apostolicam Actuositatem (Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity)
- Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life)
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Marriage Resources
Marriage: Unique for a Reason offers resources to assist with the education and catechesis of Catholics on why marriage is unique and why it should be promoted and protected as the union of one man and one woman.
Each of the videos in this initiative, with its companion written material, is intended to be used for personal reflection and group discussion and as a resource for clergy, catechists, teachers and other leaders.
Pope Paul VI wrote: “By it [the Sacrament of Matrimony] husband and wife are strengthened and…consecrated for the faithful accomplishment of their proper duties, for the carrying out of their proper vocation even to perfection, and the Christian witness which is proper to them before the whole world” (Humanae Vitae, n. 25).