Reviews of Sex and the Sacred City
Dear Friends,
I am very happy to write a foreword to Steve Kellmeyer's book, Sex and the Sacred City. I have been grateful to have gotten to know Steve and become familiar with his works since my arrival in the Diocese of Fort Worth.
Magisterial Writings on NFP
Dubium:
Should those spouses be reprehended who make use of marriage only on those days when (in the opinion of some doctors) conception is impossible?
Response: After mature examination, we have decided that such spouses should not be disturbed [or disquieted], provided they do nothing that impedes generation
~ Question by Bishop of Amiens, France, 1853 AD, response by Sacred Penitentiary, quoted in J. Montánchez, Teología Moral [Buenos Aires, 1946], p. 654.
Dubium:
Whether it is licit to make use of marriage only on those days when it is more difficult for conception to occur?
TOB: Parental Duty to Educate
Mon, 07/14/2008 - 09:52 — skellmeyer5. ...For its part, physical procreation also fully responds to its meaning only if it is completed by paternity and maternity in the spirit, whose expression and fruit is all the educative work of the parents in regard to the children born of their conjugal corporeal union.
14 April 1982 - Marriage and Continence Complement Each Other
Theology of the Body
Thu, 06/05/2008 - 22:15 — skellmeyerJohn Paul II's papal addresses, fully searchable.
