Since the other recent thread was locked, can someone please quote an official document that says the unitive aspects of marriage are "equal" to the procreative as an end of marriage?
Humanae Vitae only says both are "essential" (as does CCC 2369) or both "inherent" and that they can't be seperated. Which is true. Still that doesn't mean they are equal as ends of marriage. Even the CCC dances around this by simply saying procreation (fecundity) is "an end of marriage" in CCC, without affirming procreation and raising children as the "primary" end of marriage.
Can someone say why the red quoted statement below is not a Pope, in his authority to teach on faith and morals, affirming a constant teaching of the Church and thus asserting the infallibility of the ordinary magisterium on this point?
Humanae Vitae only says both are "essential" (as does CCC 2369) or both "inherent" and that they can't be seperated. Which is true. Still that doesn't mean they are equal as ends of marriage. Even the CCC dances around this by simply saying procreation (fecundity) is "an end of marriage" in CCC, without affirming procreation and raising children as the "primary" end of marriage.
Can someone say why the red quoted statement below is not a Pope, in his authority to teach on faith and morals, affirming a constant teaching of the Church and thus asserting the infallibility of the ordinary magisterium on this point?
http://www.catholicculture.org/docs...cfm?recnum=3462
The primary end of marriage
Now, the truth is that matrimony, as an institution of nature, in virtue of the Creator's will, has not as a primary and intimate end the personal perfection of the married couple but the procreation and upbringing of a new life. The other ends, inasmuch as they are intended by nature, are not equally primary, much less superior to the primary end, but are essentially subordinated to it. This is true of every marriage, even if no offspring result, just as of every eye it can be said that it is destined and formed to see, even if, in abnormal cases arising from special internal or external conditions, it will never be possible to achieve visual perception. It was precisely to end the uncertainties and deviations which threatened to diffuse errors regarding the scale of values of the purposes of matrimony and of their reciprocal relations, that a few years ago (March 10, 1944), We Ourselves drew up a declaration on the order of those ends, pointing out what the very internal structure of the natural disposition reveals. We showed what has been handed down by Christian tradition, what the Supreme Pontiffs have repeatedly taught, and what was then in due measure promulgated by the Code of Canon Law. Not long afterwards, to correct opposing opinions, the Holy See, by a public decree, proclaimed that it could not admit the opinion of some recent authors who denied that the primary end of marriage is the procreation and education of the offspring, or teach that the secondary ends are not essentially subordinated to the primary end, but are on an equal footing and independent of it.