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Apostolic Exhortation Summary

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This is an Apostolic Exhortation by Pope John Paul II promulgated following the 1980 Synod of Bishops. It was issued on November 22, 1981. It outlines major themes in understanding family dynamic. In this encyclical, the Pope wants to guide the Christian family in the contemporary world to live the human values that foster marriage and family life according to Christian faith.
Knowing that marriage and the family constitute one of the most precious of human values, the Church wishes to speak and offer her help to those who are already aware of the value of marriage and the family and seek it to live it faithfully.
The pope asserts that the future of the world and of the Church passes through the family. The opening paragraphs of this document state clearly the fact that the family is in crisis. The ideas and solutions which are very appealing …show more content…

In this regard, the Church reaffirms the law of subsidiarity, which the school is bound to observe when it cooperates in sex education, by entering the same spirit that animates the parents. In this context education for chastity is essential, for it is a virtue that develops a person’s authentic maturity and makes him or her capable of respecting and fostering the “nuptial meaning” of the body. Indeed, Christian parents, discerning the signs of God’s call, will devote special attention and care to education in virginity or celibacy as the supreme form of that self-giving that constitutes the very meaning of human sexuality. For this reason, the Church is firmly opposed to an often-widespread form of imparting sex information dissociated from moral principles. That would merely be an introduction to the experience of pleasure and a stimulus leading to the loss of serenity-while still in the years of innocence-by opening the way to

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