Published: 2025-06-20

The evolution of the concept of the essential ends of marriage in the 20th century from the perspective of catholic integrism

Dawid Pietras
Ius Matrimoniale
Section: Rozprawy i artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/im.2025.36.1.01

Abstract

The Fathers of the Second Vatican Council, through the Constitution Gaudium et spes, departed from the hierarchical conception regarding the ends of marriage, in which the first and primary purpose was the procreation and upbringing of offspring. This concept was taken up after Vaticanum II and reflected in the papal teaching and definition of marriage contained in can. 1055 § 1 CIC/83, according to which the basic ends of marriage are the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring. This personalistic approach, which emphasizes marriage as a covenant and a community of life in love, was met with opposition from circles that are called integrism. Representatives of this trend tried to preserve the entirety of Catholic doctrine in its content before the Second Vatican Council and therefore adhered to the hierarchical division of the ends of marriage according to the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas and can. 1013 § 1 CIC/17. They maintain that the post-conciliar teaching on this matter is a source of the crisis that has affected Christian marriages and families.

Keywords:

ends of marriage, good of spouses, offspring, remedium concupiscentiae, integrism, FSSPX

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Pietras, D. (2025). The evolution of the concept of the essential ends of marriage in the 20th century from the perspective of catholic integrism. Ius Matrimoniale, 36(1), 5–50. https://doi.org/10.21697/im.2025.36.1.01

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