From the 1998 Inside the Vatican
Special Supplement on Humanae Vitae
CATHOLIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (USA)
Catholic teaching on the dignity and uniqueness of every human person is founded upon Biblical and natural law, truths which have guided our Western Civilization up to our modern era. The impli- cations of that teaching are clear. God chose Adam and Eve to be the first husband and wife, the first parents. From the beginning, God created marriage to fill heaven with saints. Marriage, today, has that same divine purpose.In the love between husband and wife, God creates children to be reared and educated by the parents.