| − | ::''a good, moral use of the marriage bed, the natural and lawful use of the wife by the husband, and of the husband by the wife, according to the law of God; which is so far from being unclean, filthy, and inconsistent with the purity of Christ, as papists, apostates from the faith, assert''<ref>The papist Catholic Church, in its official teaching, has always taken a positive view of the marriage bed and of sexuality in marriage. Marital intercourse, says the ''Catechism of the Catholic Church'', is “noble and honorable,” established by God so that “spouses should experience pleasure and enjoyment of body and spirit.” ([http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2362.htm paragraph 2362])—[https://www.foryourmarriage.org/marital-sexuality/ Marital Sexuality (foryourmarriage.org)]. <br> According to the papist [http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p2s2c3a7.htm#1601 ''Catechism of the Catholic Church'' (CCC) paragraphs 1601–1617 marriage "is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring"], and in [http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s2c2a6.htm#2331 paragraphs 2331–2400 the conjugal sexual relation between spouses "preserves in its fullness the sense of true mutual love and its orientation toward man's exalted vocation to parenthood."]</ref> | + | ::''a good, moral use of the marriage bed, the natural and lawful use of the wife by the husband, and of the husband by the wife, according to the law of God; which is so far from being unclean, filthy, and inconsistent with the purity of Christ, as papists, apostates from the faith, assert''<ref>The papist Catholic Church, in its official teaching, has always taken a positive view of the marriage bed and of sexuality in marriage. Marital intercourse, says the ''Catechism of the Catholic Church'' ([http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2362.htm paragraph 2362]), is “noble and honorable,” established by God so that “spouses should experience pleasure and enjoyment of body and spirit.”—[https://www.foryourmarriage.org/marital-sexuality/ Marital Sexuality (foryourmarriage.org)]. <br> According to the papist [http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p2s2c3a7.htm#1601 ''Catechism of the Catholic Church'' (CCC) paragraphs 1601–1617 marriage "is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring"], and in [http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s2c2a6.htm#2331 paragraphs 2331–2400 the conjugal sexual relation between spouses "preserves in its fullness the sense of true mutual love and its orientation toward man's exalted vocation to parenthood."]</ref> |