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The transmission of human life is a most serious role in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly with God the Creator. It has always been a source of great joy to them, even though it sometimes entails many difficulties and hardships.

— Pope Paul VI

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If evils increase, the devotion of the People of God should also increase.

Married love is also faithful and exclusive of all other, and this until death.

The fascination of worldly life today is very powerful indeed, and many people regard conformity to it as an inescapable and indeed a wise course to take.

The family is, so to speak, the domestic church. In it parents should, by their word and example, be the first preachers of the faith to their children.

Lumen gentium (1964)

With regard to man's innate drives and emotions, responsible parenthood means that man's reason and will must exert control over them.

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