Don Pietro Leone has done a great service to the Holy Church of God and humanity at this crucial time by writing this book to save marriage. Save marriage, you save the family. Save the family you say society. Save society, you save the world. Here is the Table of Contents so that you can see what is contained in his masterpiece. I will publish it all on here and you can down load it. I will also be posting a chapter at a time to give you time to slowly read it. Don Pietro Leone is the “nom de plume” of a priest who has worked in parishes for many years.
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Preface 1 Part I
Introduction
Chapter 1
PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY 5 1. The Final End of Man 18 2. The Moral Law
3. The Dignity of the Person
i) The Natural Dignity of Man 22 24 25
ii) The Supernatural Dignity of Man 30
iii) The Dignity of Vocation 34
iv) The Dignity Consequent on the Incarnation 37
4. On the Nature of Love 41
i) God’s Charity 41
ii) Man’s Charity 42
iii) Rational and Sensible Love 45
Chapter 3
A NOVEL TENDENCY IN THE MAGISTERIUM 54
1. Radical Subjectivism Defined 54
i) The Distancing from the Faith 55
ii) The Priority of the Good over the True 56
2. Anthropocentrism 58
Magisterial Personalism 62
1. The Personalism of Max Scheler 63
2. Magisterial Personalism 65
3. Evaluation of Personalism 70
i) Evaluation of Personalism in General 70
ii) Evaluation of Scheler’s Personalism 72
iii) Evaluation of Magisterial Personalism 76
a) Magisterial Personalism in Relation to the Perennial Philosophy in Theory 76
b) Magisterial Personalism in Relation to the Perennial Philosophy in Practice 78
c) Magisterial Personalism in Relation to Faith 79
4. The Motivation of Magisterial Personalism 84
The Origin and Correct Evaluation of the Novel Tendency 86
1. The Origin of the Novel Tendency86
2. The Correct Evaluation of the Novel Tendency 88
Part II
From the Philosophical Perspective
Chapter 4
THE NATURE OF SEXUALITY (MARRIAGE IN ETHICS) 96
In the Light of the Moral Law 96
In the Light of Love 105
1.The Traditional Doctrine 105
2. The Novel Doctrine 107
Chapter 5
CONTRACEPTION 119 Historical Sketch 121
The Second Vatican Council 123
Humanae Vitae and Familiaris Consortio 124
Commentary 131
1. The Order of the Ends of Marriage 133
i) The Novel Doctrine 133
ii) The Traditional Doctrine 135
a) The Magisterium 135
b) Sacred Scripture 137
c) Patristics 139
d) Speculative Theology 139
iii) Analysis of the Novel Doctrine 141
2. The ‘Unitive and Procreative Meanings’ of the Marriage Act 144
3. Natural Birth Control 147
i) The Traditional Doctrine 147
ii) The Novel Doctrine 150
iii) Comparison of the Traditional and the Novel Doctrines 153
Chapter 6
THE EXPANSION OF IMPURITY 157
Chapter 7
THE PRACTICE OF ABORTION 170
1. The Unborn 171
2. Principal Types of Abortion 173
3. The Law on Abortion 178
Chapter 8
THE ETHICS OF ABORTION 182
Catholicism 182
1. It is Wrong to Kill an Innocent Person 182
2. The Unborn is an Innocent Person 185
i) From the Theological Perspective 185
a) The Analogy with the Incarnation 185
b) The analogy with the Immaculate Conception 186
c) Canon Law 186
ii) From the Philosophical Perspective 187
a) The Scientific Argument 190
b) The Teleological Argument 190
c) The Argument from Possibility 191
iii) Possible Objections 192
a) There is no Proof for the Existence of the Immortal Soul
192 b) The Theory of the Subsequent Infusion of the Spiritual Soul
193 Humanism 205
1. Strong Humanism 207
2. Weak Humanism 207
Hedonism 217
Pain and Suffering 221
Chapter 9
‘PRO-CHOICE’ 231
Part III From the Theological Perspective
Chapter 10 MARITAL AND NON-MARITAL SEXUALITY (MARRIAGE IN MORAL THEOLOGY) 241
- Marriage as Instituted by God 241
- Marriage as a Sacrament 243
- Christ restores Marriage to its Primitive Qualities 246
4. Non-marital Sexuality 251
Chapter 11 CHASTITY 257
1. Chastity and Original Sin 257
2. The Nature of Chastity 259
3. Perfect Chastity 262
4. Education in Chastity 265
Chapter 12 ABORTION AND THE GOSPEL OF LIFE 273
Introduction 274
Present-day Threats to Human Life 275
The Christian Message Concerning Life 284
Thou Shalt Not Kill 292
For a New Culture of Human Life 299
Conclusion 303
Chapter 13
THE MOTIVATION AND SINFULNESS OF IMPURITY AND ABORTION 306
1. The Motivation of Impurity and Abortion 306
i) Apostasy 306
ii) Hedonism 309
iii) Humanistic Benevolence 313
2. The Sinfulness of Sexual Immorality and Abortion 315
i) The Gravity of this Sin 315
ii) The Offence against Reason 317
iii) The Offence against Truth 318
iv) The Agency of the Devil 319
a) Deceit 320
b) Death 323 326
3. The Remedy
Appendix A
THEOLOGY OF THE BODY 328
Theology of the Body as a Personalist Doctrine 330
Conjugal Love Considered in Itself 333
1. Total Self-Giving Love 333
2. Redemption of the Body 334
3. The Nuptial Meaning of the Body 336
4. The Vocation to Marriage or Virginity/Celibacy 339
Conjugal Love considered in Relation to God 341
A. Conjugal Love in Relation to the Most Blessed Trinity 342
B. Conjugal Love in Relation to Christ and His Church 347
1. The Mutual Subjection of the Spouses 347
2. The Union in One Flesh 348
3. The Language of Agape 349
4. The Most Profound Sign of Agape 351
Conclusion 352
Appendix B
LIMBO CALLED INTO QUESTION 354
Bibliographical Note 362
The original author of this blog passed away in July of 2016. RIP Father Carota.