Word: sacramentally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Polygamy. Though diminishing, it still too often makes a wife "no more than the mother of her husband's children." But while polygamy is unChristian, one delegate warned, "Catholic women should not leave husbands who take another wife. Under the sacrament of marriage, there can be no second wife. She must be considered a concubine...
...catechism on the Eucharist: "What is the Eucharist? The Eucharist is a sacrament which contains the actual body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ under the appearance of bread and wine." New version...
...remain faithful to their husbands . . . The dead who see God face to face cannot tolerate in those they have loved . . . inconsistent attachment. What poor human consolation can equal the grandeur of widowhood when it is turned into a means of continuing a union and perpetuating the graces of the sacrament of marriage...
...therefore to the unmarried and widows. It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn." Argued St. Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theological: A second marriage is "a somewhat defective sacrament, because it has not its full signification, since there is not a union of only one woman with only one man as in the marriage of Christ with the Church. And on account of this defect the blessing is [usually] omitted...
...fine," says Father Kelly in the Homiletic & Pastoral Review. "But there is plentiful mixing of truth and error in his preaching on these points." And Kelly complains that Evangelist Graham leaves out entirely such cornerstones of the Catholic faith as the mediating power of the Virgin Mary, the sacrament of the Mass, the necessity of Baptism, and the unity of the church. "Billy's teachings about the Church are not the same as Christ's teachings...