True love in marriage supposes the bearing of children. Those who truly love in marriage will naturally have children as the fruit of their love and the greatest bond of their union. Those who despise children and refuse to offer them care and devotion do not truly love. Of course there are those whose marriages will be childless because of some tragedy of
Marriage is a part of human life on this earth as created by God. Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh. (Genesis 2:24, cf Matthew 19:5-6) God created male and female so that man and woman would live their lives together in marriage as one flesh. This union should be
The sexual character of human persons has a positive role to play in human spirituality. Like all things human, sexuality must be sanctioned by God and inspired with the Holy Spirit, used for the purposes God has intended. And like all things human, through its misuse and abuse, sexuality can be perverted and corrupted, becoming an instrument of sin rather than the means for
