What is the Catholic category of marriage?

Answer 1

The Catholic teaching on marriage is that it is one of the seven sacraments by which Our Blessed Lord gives grace to people. The sacrament of marriage is a lifelong commitment between two baptized persons for the strengthening of their mutual love and the begetting and raising of children.

It is the joining of a man and a woman in which they become one entity. The man and woman will have offspring and raise them in the catholic faith to further spread the word of God in word and action. Those who are married are only to be separated by death or an annulment. Sexual relations outside of this covenant is sinful.

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Catholic AnswerThe Catholic Church's view of marriage is that it is a sacrament established by Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ instituted as a symbol of the relationship between Our Blessed Lord and His Church - this matrimonial symbolism is used all throughout The Bible. As such, it is between one man and one woman, and is life-long because God joins the two together and they become one, no longer two, but one. A spiritual unity is brought into being through the sacrament. Thus they are responsible for each other's welfare, both on this earth and each other's salvation. And like the Church, and the Trinity of God, this love is to be fruitful and bring forth new life, which married couples must welcome in love, thus fulfilling God's plan for them.

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from The Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, English translation 1994

1601 "The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring; this covenant between baptized persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament." (Codex Iuris Canonicic, canon 1055 § 1; cf. Gaudium et spes48 § 1.(

1614 In his preaching Jesus unequivocally taught the original meaning of the union of man and woman as the Creator willed it from the beginning: permission given by Moses to divorce one's wife was a concession to the hardness of hearts. (Cf. Mt 19:6) The matrimonial union of men and woman is indissoluble: God himself has determined is: "what therefore God has joined together, let no man put asunder." (Mt 19:6)

from Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980

Marriage. As a natural institution, the lasting union of a man and a woman who agree to give and receive rights over each other for the performance of the act of generation and for fostering of their mutual love.

The state of marriage implies four chief conditions: 1. There must be a union of opposite sexes; it is therefore opposed to all forms of unnatural, homosexual behavior; 2. It is a permanent union until the death of either spouse; 3. It is an exclusive union, so that extramarital acts are a violation of justice; and 4. Its permanence and exclusiveness are guaranteed by contract; mere living together, without mutually binding themselves to do so, is concubinage and not marriage.

Christ elevated marriage to a sacrament of the New Law. Christian spouses signify and partake of the mystery of that unity and fruitful love which exists between Christ and His Church, helping each other attain to holiness in their married life and in the rearing and education of their children.

Answer 2

I really am not sure what you are asking. However, marriage is considered to be a sacrament by Catholics.