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_005197399	Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI)	On Christian marriage : complete official text of the recent encyclical letter of Pope Pius XI.	1931		.txt	text/plain	19907	462	48	30 ON CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE With great wisdom Our predecessor Leo XIII, of happy memory, in the Encyclical which we have already mentioned on Christian marriage, teaches with regard to this order to be maintained between man and wife: The man is the ruler of the family, and the head of the woman, but because she is flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone, let her be subject and obedient to the man not as a servant but as a companion, so that nothing be lacking of honor or of dignity in the obedience which she pays. Such wholesome instruction and religious training in re- gard to Christian marriage will be quite different from that exaggerated physiological education by means of which in these times of ours some reformers of married life make pre- ON CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE 57 tence of helping those joined in wedlock, making much of these physiological matters, by which is learned the art of sinning in a subtle way rather than the virtue of living chastely.	cache/_005197399.txt	txt/_005197399.txt