Covenant marriage: an achievable legal response to the inherent nature of marriage and its various goods.(Special Issue: The Nature of Marriage and Its Various Aspects) From: Ave Maria Law Review | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2006 Ave Maria School of Law. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

INTRODUCTION

The Code of Canon Law describes marriage as a covenant: "The marriage covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of their whole life, and which of its own very nature is ordered to the well-being of the spouses and to the procreation and upbringing of children, has, between the baptised, been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament." (1)

~Alfonso Cardinal Lopez Trujillo

As canon law so aptly distinguishes, the concept of marriage as a covenant differs from marriage as a sacrament. Marriage is a covenant ...

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