Keywords
morality
Bible
Humanae vitae
Pope Paul VI
papal encyclicals
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Abstract
The problems presented in Humanae vitae have become the object of harsh disagreement even in the Church some fifty years after the encyclical's publication. The dispute has been extended to the possibility that the Magisterium of the Church should give lay people some direction in their lives. Moreover, the disagreement has also concerned the boundaries of freedom of choice for a person who wants to live by their accepted rules. The document in question is a testimony to the pope's responsibility to Christ and the world for the immutability of truths taught by the Church. It is also a courageous testament to the issue of sexual intercourse of spouses in the age of a general slackening or negation of morals which guard the indissolubility of marriage. It comes as no surprise that the pope referred to the few – yet important – biblical texts in order to justify the rightness and significance of the undertaken issues, as well as their permanence in the lives of particular people of faith. The present paper attempts to prove that the choice of the biblical texts was not random; moreover, this paper fully justifies the truths touched upon in the encyclical which are difficult to accept in the contemporary mentality. Due to the limited character of this research, it will only deal with those quotations that show the depth of the encyclical's anchorage in the truths resulting from the infallible Scripture, which has a strong bearing on the justification of the encyclical's sanctity in the moral issues of widely understood human sexuality in the light of the Church teachings.
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