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Companionate and Trial Marriage
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Vermeersch, What Is Marriage?
Vermeersch, What Is Marriage?, Part Two: The Attack on Marriage
What Are the Logical Consequences of This Doctrine?
That the laws and morals of marriage are variable, according to prevailing ideas and the shifting circumstances of human affairs; that the generative power has a wider range than matrimony; and hence that it may be exercised outside as well as within the confines of wedlock.
What Are the Aberrations of the Conjugal Union Which Are Here Condemned by the Holy Father?
The Holy Father repudiates in the name of Catholic morality, or rather in the name of natural morality: temporary marriages, contracted only for a definite time, for example whilst the parties live in a certain country or are engaged in a certain enterprise; trial marriages, entered upon as a provisional experiment; companionate marriage, based on a so-called friendship which claims the most intimate relations, but insists on their remaining unfruitful. Whilst he condemns these enormities, the Holy Father is even more severe against the effrontery of those who insist that these monstrosities be legitimatized by law or at least legally tolerated.