50. How grievously all these err and how shamelessly they leave the ways of honesty is already evident from what we have set forth here regarding the origin and nature of wedlock, its purposes and the good inherent in it. The evil of this teaching is plainly seen from the consequences which its advocates deduce from it, namely, that the laws, institutions and customs by which wedlock is governed, since they take their origin solely from the will of man, are subject entirely to him, hence can and must be founded, changed and abrogated according to human caprice and the shifting circuмstances of human affairs; that the generative power which is grounded in nature itself is more sacred and has wider range than matrimony - hence it may be exercised both outside as well as within the confines of wedlock, and though the purpose of matrimony be set aside, as though to suggest that the license of a base fornicating woman should enjoy the same rights as the chaste motherhood of a lawfully wedded wife.



Casti Connubii - 31 December 1930



Encyclical of Pope Pius XI on Christian Marriage to the Venerable Brethren, Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, Bishops, and other local ordinaries enjoying peace and communion with the Apostolic See.



Now Pope Francis (caution! scandal -)

⚠️ Amoris Laetitia - 19 March 2016🚩

As for the way of dealing with different “irreg-
ular” situations, the Synod Fathers reached a
general consensus, which I support: “In con-
sidering a pastoral approach towards people
who have contracted a civil marriage, who are
divorced and remarried, or simply living togeth-
er, the Church has the responsibility of helping
them understand the divine pedagogy of grace
in their lives and offering them assistance so
they can reach the fullness of God’s plan for
them”,328 something which is always possible by
the power of the Holy Spirit.