Episode 200: "Other Acts" in marriage: What do Catholics believe and why?

1. What do Church documents say about Other Acts? 2. What are the reasons behind the Church documents and teachings? 3. What are common objections to a ban on "other acts" if that's what the Church teaches? Link to Episode 200 Intro: https://youtu.be/2KiODByzYj4 For updates on this issue and the citations discussed, please subscribe to our newsletter: https://ucman.mailchimpsites.com [email protected] Christopher West Episodes on "Other Acts" Part 1: Episode 164: https://youtu.be/AhWZkPH6KDc Part 2: Episode 166: https://youtu.be/N4Wa8YYq-8I Primacy of Conscience Episodes: Episode 196: Personal conscience vs. Catholic teaching. Interview with former NFL chaplain. https://youtu.be/MM_dAsv9VNQ Episode 198: When conscience collides with Catholic teaching. Interview with "Essence-tial Catholic". https://youtu.be/SVJ0F1CZbew References (as of 3/2/24) Catechism of the Catholic Church: * 2350: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2350.htm * 2351: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2351.htm * 2352: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2352.htm (full text below) * 2360: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2360.htm * 2362: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2362.htm * 2366: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2366.htm * 2367: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2367.htm * 2368: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2368.htm * 2369: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2369.htm * 2370: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2370.htm * 2371: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2371.htm * 2372: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2372.htm Humanae Vitae: (paragraphs 11, 12, 13, 14) * https://www.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae.html Casti Cannubii: (paragraph 55) * https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19301231_casti-connubii.html Amoris Laetitia (Paragraph 80) * https://www.vatican.va/content/dam/francesco/pdf/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20160319_amoris-laetitia_en.pdf Persona Humana: (paragraph 9) *https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19751229_persona-humana_en.html Lumen Gentium (paragraph 25) * https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html Pope Pius XII: * Allocation to Midwives (October 29, 1951): https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/allocution-to-midwives-8965 *Address to participants of the Second World Congress on fertility and sterility (May 19, 1956): https://www.catechism.cc/pdf/Pius-XII-Address-1956.pdf Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II): * Love and Responsibility (page 271, Christopher West: * Good News about Sex & Marriage (pg. 92) Trent Horn: * What's Okay for Married Couples to do (link needed) Section 2352: "2352 By masturbation is to be understood the deliberate stimulation of the genital organs in order to derive sexual pleasure. "Both the Magisterium of the Church, in the course of a constant tradition, and the moral sense of the faithful have been in no doubt and have firmly maintained that masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action." "The deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose." For here sexual pleasure is sought outside of "the sexual relationship which is demanded by the moral order and in which the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love is achieved." To form an equitable judgment about the subjects' moral responsibility and to guide pastoral action, one must take into account the affective immaturity, force of acquired habit, conditions of anxiety or other psychological or social factors that lessen, if not even reduce to a minimum, moral culpability."