Virtues
Love
Love, compassion, charity, and respect as the relational fabric of marriage and family — tenderness toward a spouse, patience with children, mercy extended in hardship.
What's at issue
Love, compassion, charity, and respect as the relational fabric of marriage and family — tenderness toward a spouse, patience with children, mercy extended in hardship. Specifically love as it operates within the home, not Christian love as a general theological topic.
Where it appears in the Proclamation
Reading
- Attending a Same-Sex Wedding: Love, Witness, and the Relationship After
- Should I Attend a Same-Sex Wedding or Reception?
- Can I Love Someone Who Identifies as LGBT and Still Stand for What Christ Taught?
- When a Child Questions Their Gender
- Explaining the Proclamation Across Disagreement
- Finding Someone to Marry
- How Do I Explain the Family Proclamation to Someone Who Disagrees?
- The Shape of the Law of Chastity
- What Marriage Adds
- What Should I Do If My Child Leaves the Church?