It argued that all real matrimony is simply a union of 2 people ‘with precisely the same dignity and rights’, and so requires exclusive.It includes both polyamory and polygamy as incompatible with equal dignity and common belonging which the Catholic Church considers essential for marriage.The Vatican stated that the note was a consequence to pastoral concerns expressed by the leaders of the Church, especially in the regions of Africa, where polygamous marriages are common.
In fresh years, African bishops at Vatican meetings and during authoritative visits warned that polygamy was inactive common among Catholics and asked Rome for clearer guidelines.Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez said the paper aims not only at criticism of polygamy, but besides ‘to praise the value of monogamy’, emphasizing its theological, philosophical and historical foundations.‘Those who truly love know that a second individual cannot be a means to an end, and his own emptiness must be filled in a different way, never through dominance over his spouse" – he said.
"This is the case in many forms of unhealthy desire, which leads to manifest or hidden violence, oppression, intellectual pressure, control, strangulation, frequently accompanied by infidelity."Fernandez had previously written 1 of the most controversial papers of Pope Francis' pontificate – a declaration of 2023 allowing Catholic priests to bless single-sex couples.
This decision sparked an unprecedented reaction from African bishops who issued a joint message in which they refused to implement it.The fresh decree does not address another controversial issues specified as same-sex relationships or divorces.
Instead, it focuses solely on recognising lifelong monogamy as the only acceptable form of matrimony in the light of the teaching of the Catholic Church.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/62855-vatican-rejects-polygamy/
