Finally, this [married] love is fecund. It is not confined wholly to the loving interchange of husband and wife; it also contrives to go beyond this to bring new life into being. “Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the procreation and education of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage and contribute in the highest degree to their parents’ welfare.” 120 This fecundity is what makes the marital act self-giving. Homosexual acts and contraception are intrinsically selfish and closed in on themselves, for they can never be life-giving. And having
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