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\n The Vatican has issued a warning against the rise of polyamory, insisting marriage is the stable, lifelong and exclusive partnership between a man and woman.\n <\/p>\n
\n A new document defending monogamy, signed off by Pope Leo XIV<\/a>, was written as \u201cvarious public forms of non-monogamous unions \u2013 sometimes called \u2018polyamory\u2019 \u2013 are growing in the West,\u201d the text said. It also followed discussions with Roman Catholic bishops in Africa about polygamy, which has been described as a \u201cpastoral challenge\u201d for the church in the region and was discussed by Vatican assemblies (synods) in 2023 and 2024.\n <\/p>\n \n Polygamy tends to refer to one man with multiple wives, while polyamory involves people having multiple consensual romantic relationships at once.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cPolygamy, adultery, or polyamory are based on the illusion that the intensity of the relationship can be found in a succession of faces,\u201d states the doctrinal note, titled \u201cOne Flesh \u2013 In Praise of Monogamy.\u201d \u201cOur age, in fact, is experiencing various drifts with regard to love: an increase in divorces, the fragility of unions, the trivialization of adultery, and the promotion of polyamory.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n The 40-page document emphasizes the importance of marriage<\/a> between man and a woman, with Cardinal Victor Manuel Fern\u00e1ndez, the prefect of the Vatican\u2019s doctrine office, saying it is aimed at setting out the reasons for \u201cthe choice of a unique and exclusive union of love, a rich and total belonging to one another.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n The note also says it is highlighting a development in the church\u2019s understanding of sex within marriage: namely that is about more than having children.\n <\/p>\n \n In Catholic understanding, sex within marriage has two aspects: the \u201cunitive,\u201d which brings the couple closer together and can reflect divine love, and the \u201cprocreative,\u201d meaning having children. Catholic teaching forbids the use of artificial contraception \u2013 a prohibition upheld by recent popes but which has been hotly debated<\/a> and rejected by some in the church.\n <\/p>\n \n The latest doctrinal note says that \u201cunity is the founding property\u201d of marriage and that the \u201cunitive purpose of sexuality\u2026 is not limited to ensuring procreation.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rome \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 The Vatican has issued a warning against the rise of polyamory, insisting marriage is the stable,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-306381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}