the harmony of the couple and of society depends in part on the way in which the complementarity, needs, and mutual support between the sexes are lived out.Ģ334 'In creating men 'male and female,' God gives man and woman an equal personal dignity.' 'Man is a person, man and woman equally so, since both were created in the image and likeness of the personal God.'Ģ335 Each of the two sexes is an image of the power and tenderness of God, with equal dignity though in a different way.

Physical, moral, and spiritual difference and complementarity are oriented toward the goods of marriage and the flourishing of family life. It especially concerns affectivity, the capacity to love and to procreate, and in a more general way the aptitude for forming bonds of communion with others.Ģ333 Everyone, man and woman, should acknowledge and accept his sexual identity. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.'Ģ332 Sexuality affects all aspects of the human person in the unity of his body and soul.

male and female he created them' He blessed them and said, 'Be fruitful and multiply' 'When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. God inscribed in the humanity of man and woman the vocation, and thus the capacity and responsibility, of love and communion.' Creating the human race in his own image. 'Ģ331 'God is love and in himself he lives a mystery of personal loving communion. You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.'īut I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

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