Gender & Sexuality
Procreation
The sacred power and commandment to create mortal life; the first commandment to multiply and replenish the earth; bearing and welcoming children as a divine calling; reproductive technologies,…
What's at issue
The sacred power and commandment to create mortal life; the first commandment to multiply and replenish the earth; bearing and welcoming children as a divine calling; reproductive technologies, infertility, and adoption viewed within God's eternal plan for family.
Where it appears in the Proclamation
Reading
- Is It Okay to Delay or Limit Having Children?
- Isn't Surrogacy Just Another Form of Adoption?
- Surrogacy and the Mother a Child Loses
- The Commandment to Multiply, and the Decisions Around It
- Before Bethlehem: What Jesus Christ’s Life in the Womb Teaches Us About the Sanctity of Life
- How Do We Know How Many Children to Have?
- Is It Okay to Wait Until We Feel Financially Ready to Have Children?
- Joy in the Womb: Elisabeth, Mary, and the First Witness of Christ
- The Annunciation and the Unborn Christ
- What Chastity Protects
- Why Does God Want Me to Become a Parent?
- Why Does the Possibility of Creating a Child Make Sex So Serious?