id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005195378 Schmiedeler, Edgar, 1892-1963. Concerning the family 1940 .txt text/plain 7135 345 64 The Church, the organized ex- pression of Christianity, has promoted a uni- fied home life by pointing to the union of Christ and His Church as the image of the union of the Christian husband and wife; by basing marriage on a permanent vow in- stead of a dissoluble contract; by other doc- trines and moral teachings that promoted cordial relations between family members and produced a sense of responsibility with 17 regard to marital duties and familial ob- ligations. And of course the fact that his late Holi- ness, Pius XI, thought an Encyclical on Marriage, addressed to the entire human race, timely is proof sufficient that marriage and family life must be in a pretty bad way. cache/_005195378.txt txt/_005195378.txt