CCC 2335
Life in Christ›SECTION TWO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS›CHAPTER TWO YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF›I. "Male and Female He Created Them . . ."
Each of the two sexes is an image of the power and tenderness of God, with equal dignity though in a different way. the union of man and woman in marriage is a way of imitating in the flesh the Creator's generosity and fecundity: "Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh." All human generations proceed from this union.
Footnotes
- ⇒ Gen 2:24.
- Cf. ⇒ Gen 4:1-2, ⇒ 25-26; ⇒ 5:1.