FAMILIARIS CONSORTIO (On The Family)
Pope John Paul II
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December 15, 1981

20. Conjugal communion is characterized not only by its unity, but also by its indissolubility. . .

It is a fundamental duty of the church to reaffirm strongly, as the synod fathers did, the doctrine of the indissolubility of marriage.

42. "Since the Creator of all things has established the conjugal partnership as the beginning and basis of human society, "the family is "the first and vital cell of society."

46. . . . Institutions and laws unjustly ignore the inviolable rights of the family and of the human person; and society, far from putting itself at the service of the family, attacks it violently . . .
Thus the family, which in God's plan is the basic cell of society and a subject of rights and duties before the state or any other community, finds itself the victim of society, of the delays and slowness with which it acts, and even of its blatant injustice.
For this reason the church openly and strongly defends the rights of the family against the intolerable usurpations of society and the state

86. The future of humanity passes by way of the family. It is therefore indispensable and urgent that every person of good will should endeavor to save and foster the values and requirements of the family.