Casamento, Família, Pais, Filhos, Adultério, Divórcio, Igualdade entre o homem e a mulher, Planejamento familiar, Controle de natalidade, Poligamia (Sacramento do Matrimônio)
       SUPLEMENTO: Revelações privadas de videntes católicos sobre a Família (Não reconhecidas oficialmente pela Igreja)
             Revelação da vidente Maria Valtorta sobre Família, Pais, Filhos, Casamento, Adultério e Divórcio

 A mulher não é uma posse, mas uma alma, e tem, portanto, direitos iguais aos do marido de ser reconhecida como parte do homem e não um objeto para seu prazer

^{[the Pharisees say:]} «Why then did Moses say: "If a man has taken a wife, but she does not find favour with him through something disgraceful, he will give her a writ of dismissal and send her away from his house"?»
^{[Jesus says:]} «He said so because of the hardness of your hearts, to avoid, by means of his order, too serious disorders.
That is why he allowed you to repudiate your wives. But it was not so from the beginning. Because a woman is worth more than an animal, which according to the caprice of its master or the free circumstances of nature, copulates with this or that male, a soulless body that copulates for procreation.
Your wives have souls, as you do, and it is not fair that you should tread on them pitilessly. If in her condemnation it is said: "You will be subject to the power of your husband and he will lord it over you", that must take place according to justice and not with arrogance offending against the rights of a free soul worthy of respect. By repudiating your wives, which is not lawful, you give offence to the soul of your companion, to the twin body which joined yours, to the whole woman, whom you married, demanding honesty in her, whilst you, oh perjurers, are dishonest, disabled, at times corrupt, when you go to her, and you continue to be so, taking every opportunity to strike her and give a wider scope to your unappeasable lust. Prostitutors of your wives! On no account can you separate from the woman who is joined to you according to the Law and Blessing. Only in the case that grace touches you, and you understand that woman is not a possession but a soul, and has therefore equal rights as yours to be recognised as part of man and not an object for his pleasure, and only in the case that your heart is so hard as not to be able to raise her to the dignity of wife, after enjoying her as a prostitute, only to remove the scandal of two who live together without the blessing of God on their union, you may send her away.
Because in that case yours is not union but fornication often not honoured by the birth of children, because they are suppressed against nature or sent away as a disgrace. In no other case. Because if you have illegitimate children from your concubine, it is your duty to put an end to the scandal by marrying her, if you are free.
I am not taking into consideration the case of adultery consumed to the detriment of an unaware wife. In that case the stones of lapidation and the fire of Sheol are holy. ^{[in this case, the man commits adultery without his wife knowing, but he does not divorce her, but he also commits sin]} But for him who sends away his legitimate wife because he is satiated with her, to take another one, there is but one sentence: he is an adulterer.
And also he who takes the repudiated woman is an adulterer, because if man has arrogated to himself the right to separate what God has joined, the matrimonial union continues in the eyes of God, and cursed is the man who takes a second wife without being a widower. And cursed is he who, after repudiating his wife and abandoning her to the dangers of life, which compel her to get married again to have her daily bread, takes her back when she becomes a widow of her second husband. Because, although she is a widow, she was an adulteress through your fault, and you would double her adultery. Have you understood, Pharisees, who are tempting Me?»
^{[Maria Valtorta comments:]} They go away thoroughly humiliated, without replying.

  Vide também Vida e Obra de Maria Valtorta

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Nota sobre a fonte: Maria Valtorta foi uma mística católica italiana. Durante sua vida, ela foi agraciada com revelações de Jesus Cristo sobre o Evangelho, e também de Nossa Senhora, do Espírito Santo e de vários santos e anjos.