Chaste Wedlock - Pope Pius XI

CASTI CONNUBII, 1930. As Saint Augustine admirably deduces from the words of the holy Apostle Saint Paul to Timothy when he says: "The Apostle himself is therefore a witness that marriage is for the sake of generation: 'I wish' he says 'young girls to marry.' And as if someone said to him, 'Why?' he immediately adds: 'To bear children, to be mothers of families'.