Promotion of the Catholic family in crisis situations. Analysis taking into account the canonical order

Abstract

The concept of a Catholic family can be explained by its membership in the Church, as well as by its relationship with the sacraments (with God's grace), etc. Its vocation is the community of life of a woman and a man (communio personarum), formed by a sacramental marriage and having children. Such a community enjoys normative (canonical) care and promotion in the legal order of the Catholic Church. This is particularly important when the Magisterium of the Church comes into contact with gender ideology, or secular culture in general (and this is the status quo of the issue). The author of the analysis indicated the most important elements that (in his opinion) are of particular importance for this confrontation. He analyzed in particular those aspects which in the doctrine of the Church are called crisis ones. The aim was to show in what direction the canonical defense of faith, morality, spiritual good, etc. goes (or should go, from the point of view of Catholic ethics). It was about situations where a party practicing the Catholic faith wants to enter into marriage with an unbaptized person or with a notorious apostate faith, i.e. a formal apostate, etc. Here, the Church, apart from the traditional guarantee of faith, demands something more, being (due to the emerging threats of losing faith by a practicing nupturient) reluctant to mixed relationships and similar.