Conciliar Sect’s Marriage Doctrine Betrays Sacramental Essence
The VaticanNews portal (November 25, 2025) reports on a doctrinal note titled Una caro. In Praise of Monogamy, issued by the “Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith” under antipope Leo XIV. The document describes marriage as an “exclusive union and mutual belonging” while emphasizing conjugal charity, condemning violence, and urging education against postmodern individualism. It paradoxically claims monogamy “opens to eternity” yet reduces marriage to humanistic sentimentality, omitting its essential sacramental nature as defined by divine law.
Naturalistic Reduction of the Sacramental Bond
The conciliar document commits theological vandalism by describing marriage as merely “an indissoluble unity” founded on “free consent” rather than a sacrament conferring sanctifying grace (Trent, Sess. XXIV). This contradicts Pius XI’s encyclical Casti Connubii (1930), which states:
“Christ Himself made marriage a sacrament… He placed its divine law beyond all power of man.”
The document’s focus on “mutual belonging” and “conjugal charity” replaces sacramental grace with anthropocentric psychology, reducing the matrimonial bond to emotional attachment rather than a supernatural covenant mirroring Christ’s union with the Church (Eph 5:32).
Omission of Indissolubility’s Divine Foundation
While claiming unity “grounds indissolubility,” the text ignores Christ’s explicit words:
“What God has joined together, let no man put asunder” (Mt 19:6).
This evasion reveals the conciliar sect’s refusal to uphold marriage’s intrinsic indissolubility as a divine institution, preferring to ground it in human sentiment. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1013 §2) defines marriage’s primary end as “the procreation and education of children,” yet the document dismissively states “marriage retains its essential character even when childless” – a direct contradiction of Augustine’s teaching that sterility “does not destroy the marriage, but removes its glory” (De bono coniugali, 15).
Modernist Language Masking Doctrinal Subversion
The document employs therapeutic language about “psychological pressure” and “violence” while remaining silent on contraception, sterilization, and intrinsic evils condemned by Pius XI as “shameful and intrinsically vicious” (Casti Connubii, 54). Its approval of “natural periods of infertility” covertly endorses the rhythm method – condemned by Pius XII as permissible only for “serious motives” (Address to Midwives, 1951). By praising African cultures’ alleged monogamous tendencies, the document implicitly questions the universal validity of divine law, suggesting cultural relativism influences sacramental theology.
Sacrilegious Equivalence Between Prayer and Psychologism
The text reduces prayer to “a precious means” for spousal growth rather than acknowledging it as the soul’s elevation to God. This psychologization ignores the Council of Trent’s teaching that sacramental grace
“perfects natural love [and] confirms the indissoluble union” (Sess. XXIV).
The document’s call for “attention to the poor” as an “antidote to selfishness” substitutes social activism for the primary duty of sanctification through sacramental life. Leo XIV’s description of poverty as “a family matter” exemplifies the conciliar sect’s Marxist distortion of charity, replacing spiritual works of mercy with political agendas.
Inversion of Hierarchy Between Supernatural and Natural
By framing sexuality as “a marvelous gift of God” rather than a means for procreation within sacramental grace, the document echoes the 1930 Lambeth Conference’s heretical approval of contraceptive use – condemned by Pius XI as “open rebellion against divine law” (Casti Connubii, 56). Its endorsement of “shared projects for the community” subverts the domestic Church’s primary mission:
the sanctification of spouses and children through prayer, sacrifice, and fidelity to sacramental grace.
Symptomatic Apostasy From Catholic Tradition
The document’s reference to Augustine’s “Give me a heart that loves…” (In epistulam Ioannis ad Parthos, Tractatus VII, 8) deliberately omits his preceding line:
“Once for all, I give you this one short command: love, and do what you will.”
By suppressing Augustine’s insistence that love must conform to divine law, the conciliar sect reveals its alignment with the modernist heresy condemned by Pius X: “For the Modernist, faith is a sentiment originating in man’s need for the divine” (Pascendi, 14). This doctrinal note exemplifies the conciliar sect’s systematic dismantling of sacramental theology, replacing eternal truths with anthropocentric platitudes.
Source:
Doctrine of the Faith: Monogamy is not a limitation but a promise of the infinite (vaticannews.va)
Date: 25.11.2025