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NOTES
Note:
Various references are cited in this statement, including scientific stud-
ies, media articles, and books meant for a popular audience. Their inclusion
does not imply endorsement of an author or his or her work, or agreement
with an author’s position on pornography or other moral issues, but is used for
illustration of the points in the statement.
1 See
Catechism of the Catholic Church
(2nd ed.) (CCC) (Washington, DC:
Libreria Editrice Vaticana [LEV]–United States Conference of Catholic
Bishops [USCCB], 2000), no. 2354. For other examples of recent teaching,
see also St. John Paul II, Address to the Members of the Religious Alliance
Against Pornography (January 30, 1992); Pontifical Council for Social
Communications,
Pornography and Violence in the Communications Media:
A Pastoral Response
(May 7, 1989); United States Catholic Conference,
Statement
Renewing the Mind of the Media
(1998); USCCB,
Catechetical
Formation in Chaste Living: Guidelines for Curriculum Design and Publication
(2008), especially 11; USCCB, Pastoral Letter
Marriage: Love and Life in the
Divine Plan
(2009), especially 49; and Bishop Paul S. Loverde, Pastoral Letter
Bought with a Price
, new ed. (March 19, 2014).
2 See Pope Francis, Encyclical Letter
Lumen Fidei
(Washington, DC: USCCB,
2013), no. 37; Apostolic Exhortation
Evangelii Gaudium
(Washington, DC:
USCCB, 2013), no. 3.
3 Second Vatican Council, Pastoral Constitution
Gaudium et Spes
(Dec. 7, 1965),
no. 22, in
The Documents of Vatican II
, ed. Walter M. Abbott (New York: Guild
Press, 1966).
4 See CCC, nos. 261-263.
5 See St. John Paul II, Apostolic Exhortation
Familiaris Consortio
(Washington,
DC: USCCB, 1982), no. 11.
6 See CCC, no. 2392.
7 See CCC, nos. 362-365.
8 Congregation for Catholic Education,
Educational Guidance in Human Love
(1983), no. 22f., quoting St. John Paul II, General Audience of January 9,
1980. The latter can be found in St. John Paul II,
Man and Woman He Created
Them: A Theology of the Body
(hereafter TOB), trans. Michael Waldstein
(Boston: Pauline Books & Media, 2006), no. 14:4. See also USCCB,
United
States Catholic Catechism for Adults
(Washington, DC: USCCB, 2006),
412-413.
9 See, for example, TOB, nos. 13-15;
Familiaris Consortio
, no. 37; and St. John
Paul II, Encyclical Letter
Veritatis Splendor
(Washington, DC: USCCB, 1993),
no. 15. See also Pontifical Council for the Family,
The Truth and Meaning of