| Monsignor Cormac Burke unfolds the "laws of happiness" as they are found and lived in Christian marriage and family life.
Based on the covenant of married life, the author shows how personal happiness is achieved, deepened, matured and made permanent through the commitment of marriage.
This new edition includes five new chapters: sexual identity; conjugal love and indissolubility; "family planning"; love, family, and society; and love and the family in today's world. It has a new index.
Msgr. Cormac Burke has been a judge of the Roman Rota, the highest appeal court in the Catholic church, since 1986. For the previous 30 years he carried out pastoral work in the U.S., Europe and Africa. He has written many books and publications on moral and pastoral theology, and on canon law. He resides in Rome, where he also teaches anthropology at the Stadium Rotale and at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross.
Contents:
Sexual Identity in Marriage and Family Life
Conjugal Love and Indissolubility
Marriage in Crisis
Family Planning
Divorce: The Spouses
Divorce: The Children
Married Love and Contraception
Children as Values
Parents, Children, and the Rules of Life
Ideals in Youth
The Family and the Permissive Society
Love, Family, and Society
Love and the Family in Today's World
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