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Catechism› 3.Life in ChristPart 3› 2.The Ten CommandmentsSection 2› 2.You Shall Love Your Neighbor as YourselfChapter 2› 6.The Sixth CommandmentArt. 6› III.The Love of Husband and WifeIII.› The fecundity of marriage

CCC 2369

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"By safeguarding both these essential aspects, the unitive and the procreative, the conjugal act preserves in its fullness the sense of true mutual love and its orientation toward man's exalted vocation to parenthood." Cf. HV 12.

In the Compendium: Q497

Read the full chapter 2. You Shall Love Your Neighbor as Yourself ¶2196–2557

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