Premarital Sex
Pre-marital sex, young Catholics know it is wrong. So why do they do it? Most teenagers have heard or coined the phrases "everyone's doing it." "If you loved me you'd do it" and also "It's okay I have a condom." Sex before marriage can be harmful to your body, your future, but the scariest of all your eternity. In this paper we shall look more into the Catholic point of view on pre-marital bliss. The purpose of sex is to unite a married couple as one loving body in consummating a marriage, to leave the possibility of procreation open, and to and to educate a child. The purpose of sex is to unite a married couple as one loving body. This is because God's intention in creating the first man and woman was for them to love and create more men and women. To do so a married couple must join as one loving body or to have sexual intercourse. In having intercourse the first time in a marriage you are consummating the marriage therefore making the marriage official in the eyes of God. The Catechism of the Catholic Church says: "the union of man and woman in marriage is a way of imitating the flesh in the creators generosity and fecundity: 'Therefore . . . and they become one flesh' (Gen4:24)
New Catholic Encyclopedia. Volume 17, Palatine, Ill.: Jack Heraty & Associates, Inc., 1981 Pastor David; "Virginity/Marriage." Online: Cogo, 13 March, 1999. Available: . (9 May 1999). Such examples prove that sex inside of marriage is the simplest choice. One would not have as many issues to face and will be able to raise a family almost problem free. In parenting there will naturally be problems too, however when an adult is there to help their children they have the personal experience and moral guidance needed to lead the offspring off on the right foot. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: " Parents are the principle and first educators of their children. In this sense the fundamental task of marriage and family is to be at the service of life" (1653, 461). When your child comes to you and tell you that their boy/girlfriend is pressuring them for sex you can be able to tell them to abstain. "Abstinence is the only safe and morally correct form of contraception". When a condom does fail there is a high risk of catching a STD or having an unwanted pregnancy. In the chance of a pregnancy there are alternatives such as raising the child on your own, giving it up for abortion, and the sinful way out, having an abortion. Abortion is a mortal sin because it is the death of an unborn child. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states:
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