Catholic Moral Teaching on the Nature and Object of Conjugal Love

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This dissertation expounds the Catholic doctrine regarding the proper ends of marriage and in particular the object of conjugal love within the Sacrament of Matrimony. Refutation of the new theologians and their false doctrines concerning the ends of marriage.

p. 71-72 (PDF p. 43-44):

“The reason for the subjection is this: it is most expedient for the peace of the family, for fostering mutual love, that the wife desire to be totally dependent upon her husband.”

—St. Alphonsus, Theologia Moralis (Lib. III, Tract. II, 9th ed. Rome: Vatican, 1905), I, p. 522 [p. 364, DjVu p. 461], Gaudé: “Et ratio (subjectionis) est: quia expedit valde ad pacem familiae, ad mutuum amorem fovendum, quod uxor voluntatem totaliter a viro dependentem habeat…”

p. 72 (PDF p. 44):

Cappello says: “Neither spouse per se is bound to seek the debitum , because no one is bound to use a thing which is a right. … Per accidens , however, such an obligation can exist, especially in the husband [∵ he is head] … if the use of matrimony is necessary to foster love or to avoid disagreements.”

—Cappello, Tractatus Canonico-Moralis de Sacramentis. Vol V. De Matrimonio, p. 805: “Neuter conjux per se tenetur petere debitum, quia nemo tenetur uti jure suo. Per accidens autem potest adesse obligatio petendi, praesertim in viro … si usus matrimonii necessarius est ad fovendum amorem vel ad dissidia avertenda.”; cf. also: H. Noldin, S.J., and A. Schmitt, S.J., De Sexto Praecepto et De Usu Matrimonii (31st ed., Oeniponte: Rauch, 1940), p. 92; Merkelbach, Summa Theologiæ Moralis (vol. 3): De sacramentis, p. 964 [PDF p. 481].

p. 128 (PDF p. 72):

Leclercq, Jacques, Marriage and the Family, p. 126 (Italics mine) [Art. 3: Infidelity]:

"(There are) those who believe that they are remaining faithful to their marriage vows as long as they do not have carnal intercourse with anyone but their own spouse, but they deem it permissible to enter into sentimental relations outside of the home. They fail to see that by so doing they destroy in their home that union of souls which is more important than the union of bodies. "