Teologia morale sessuale e familiareRA0604

To help students understand key issues in sexual and family morality. To examine their implications for issues in the pastoral care of the young and families in society today.

A. Sexual ethics. 1. Introduction. 2. Sexuality in the Bible. 3. Early and medieval Catholic teaching on sexuality. 4. Catholic sexual teaching before Vatican II. 5. Contemporary challenges to traditional sexual morality. 6. The Catholic Church’s approach to sexuality today. 7. Chastity and sexual ethics. 8. Sexuality outside marital relationships. 9. Sexual fulfilment through renunciation: Celibate chastity. b. Family ethics. 1. The family today: Emerging models. 2. Promoting marital fidelity in family life: Challenges in society today. 3. Some significant magisterial interventions: Familiaris consortio, Amoris laetitia.

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