CONTENTS
Part I God's Plan for Love
1. Love Between Men and Women: The
Promise and the Reality
2. Sex is a Language of Love
3. Love Comes from God
4. God Made Man for Love
5. The Greatest Commandment: Love
6. Married Love in the Bible
7. The Covenant and Marriage
8. Marriage Restored in Christ
Part II Putting Love Into Love
9. The Sexual Revolution
10. Truthfulness in Sexual Love
11. Sex and Marriage
- 11.1 Extra-marital Sex
- 11.2 Pre-marital Sex
- 11.3 Cohabitation Without Marriage
- 11.4 Unmarried Pregnancy
12. Sex and Parenthood
- 12.1 Children, the Precious Gift of Marriage
- 12.2 Responsible Parenthood
- 12.3 The Contraceptive Mentality
- 12.4 Sterilisation
13. Loveless Sex
- 13.1 Pornography
- 13.2 Rape
14. Solitary Sex
15. Homosexuality
16. The Challenge of Chastity
- 16.1 The Christian Vision
- 16.2 Keeping Faith with Love
- 16.3 Consecrated Chastity
- 16.4 Mary Ever Virgin
Part III Marriage: Its Stresses and Its Graces
17. Marriage in Contemporary Society
18. Incidence of Marital Breakdown in
Ireland
19. Marriage and Fidelity in Christian
Revelation
20. The Divorce Debate
- 20.1 Law and Morality
- 20.2 Divorce and the Definition of Marriage
- 20.3 Irretrievable Breakdown
- 20.4 Divorce Statistics
- 20.5 Divorce in Northern Ireland
- 20.6 Divorce and Children
- 20.7 Divorce and Women
Part IV Marriage and the Family in Society and in the Church
21. The State and the Family
- 21.1 The Rights of the Family
- 21.2 The Irish Constitution and the Family
- 21.3 Public Policies of Support for Marriage
- 21.4 Reform of Family Law
- 21.5 Averting Marital Breakdown
- 21.6 Preparation for Marriage
22. Marriage in the Christian
Community
- 22.1 Existing Services for Marriage and the Family
- 22.2 New Services Needed
- 22.3 Priests and the Pastoral Care of Marriage
- 22.4 Church Annulments
- 22.5 The Church's Compassion in Difficult Cases
- 22.6 Marriage and the Family in the Life of the Church
- 22.7 Sexuality and Holiness
- 22.8 Being the Church
- 22.9 Single Persons and Widows
- 22.10 Pope John Paul's call to Irish Families
- 22.11 The Eternal Wedding Feast