Cardinal Eijk issued a “handbook” of Catholic marital ethics

The Primate of the Netherlands Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk, a defender of the teaching of the Church in the times of relativism conquered the tops of the hierarchy, published a book resembling Catholic teaching on matrimony morality.

In his extended publication entitled “About Love. matrimony and Sexual Ethics” the hierarch cites the authority of the Magisterium of the Church and the Scriptures. As he noted, marriage, household life, and sexuality influenced by various social and cultural factors have undergone major changes since the 19th century. At the beginning of this period, in conventional peasant society, social life was primarily based on household relations. My wife and husband worked together, shared experiences. present they live in separate worlds, have separate interests and contacts. This deepens individualism, which leads to the dissolution of many marriages. The highest in their references to themselves and the planet takes emotionality, causing that what people declare in the ethical sphere comes from individual preferences, attitudes and feelings. "The incorrect thing is what causes negative feelings; the right thing brings affirmative feelings. Emotivism leads to extremist relativism," wrote Archbishop Utrecht, noting that even love is frequently brought to the level of emotion today.

The social majority looks at matrimony as a purely human institution. The spiritual dimension associated with human participation in God’s creation was taken distant from procreation and fertility. Children are not commonly seen as a gift from our Father. Feministic ideology had a major impact on cultural change separating social roles from the biology-based sex differences between men and women. The masking of women leads to their contempt for actual femininity.

As Cardinal Eijk notes, values are not nonsubjective in general perception but relative. Each entity has the right to autonomy in establishing them, as in the case of moral principles. This illness has besides reached the Church – many moralists defend situational ethics or the concept of "lesser evil" with regard, for example, to the question of the usage of contraception (under this name, besides conceals abortive measures) or to allowing premarital intercourse (which is due to the care of the "quality of the relationship").

However, the Church focuses not so much on the benefits of marriage, sexuality and procreation, but on what they truly are," emphasizes the hierarch. As he recalls, the inextricable relation between men and women constitutes their “total, mutual, eventual and exclusive gift”. It is simply a human image of the communion and love of the Holy Trinity.

In turn, the household is “the most expressive image of God engraved in creatures.” My husband makes my wife a mother, and she gives her bride the gift of fatherhood. Thus, sexual union "is inextricably linked to the full gift of a individual in marriage." Any going outside of matrimony is an abuse and insult of God.

Human nature and the resulting periods of abstinence teach us to search moderation to avoid both excessive sensuality and coldness.

"Eijk then identifies in the ideologies of Malthusian ideologies tragically spreading contraceptive mentality today, which denies the bridegroom's dimension of the body; then focuses analytically on sins against chastity, committed in and out of marriage; he writes about prostitution, homosexuality, pedophilia, polygamy, emphasizing moral implications at the philosophical and theological level," discusses the book by Cardinal publicist Fabio Piemonte.

The Dutch hierarch refers to the trendy issue of “association to persons surviving in an irregular situation” in the Church today. With respect to those divorced in fresh relationships, their request for pastoral care must not translate into waiting to receive Holy Communion.

Cardinal Eijk calls ideology gender “A serious threat to marriage, the right to life and the preaching of Catholic faith” she sees at the beginning of which she sees in extremist feminism.

Source: LaNuovaBQ.it

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