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Good of fidelity: "In the very act in which married partners pay the debt they
owe to each other, even if they demand this somewhat intemperately and
without self-control, they owe equal fidelity to each other."
D. 5. Marriage requires (1) permanence, and (2) openness to children.
Status
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Desire for sex without desire for children is made better by the fact of being
married with the one with whom one desires sex
E. 6. Fidelity extends not only to having intercourse for the sake of children, but to
the spouses weakness. One shows fidelity, even if the request for sexual
intercourse comes from weakness and incontinence. Venial fault is connected
with marital intercourse for the sake of lust.
F. 7. For Christians, fidelity must be kept even in the event of divorce. Remarriage
is not possible, even for the sake of procreation. The strength of this bond is on
account of the "sacramentum" of a greater reality. The Romans, however, do
allow the woman to remarry. "The initial marriage covenant is so clearly bound
up with a kind of sacrament that it is not made void even by the act of
separation... the bond of fellowship between spouses is so strong that though
they were bound together for the sake of begetting children, the marriage is not
dissolved even in order to beget them" (ch. 6-7).