Catholic Moral Teaching on the Nature and Object of Conjugal Love

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This dissertation expounds the Catholic doctrine regarding the proper ends of marriage and in particular the object of conjugal love within the Sacrament of Matrimony. Refutation of the new theologians and their false doctrines concerning the ends of marriage.p. 71-72 (PDF p. 43-44):> “The reason for the subjection is this: it is most expedient for the peace of the family, for fostering mutual love, that the wife desire to be totally dependent upon her husband.”> —St. Alphonsus, [*Theologia Moralis*](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=7493) (Lib. III, Tract. II, 9th ed. Rome: Vatican, 1905), I, p. 522 [p. 364, DjVu p. 461], Gaudé: “Et ratio (subjectionis) est: quia expedit valde ad pacem familiae, ad mutuum amorem fovendum, quod uxor voluntatem totaliter a viro dependentem habeat…”p. 77 (PDF p. 46):> Cappello says: “Neither spouse *per se* is bound to seek the *debitum* , because no one is bound to use a thing which is a right. … *Per accidens* , however, such an obligation can exist, especially in the husband [∵ he is head] … if the use of matrimony is necessary to foster love or to avoid disagreements.”> —Cappello, [*Tractatus Canonico-Moralis de Sacramentis. Vol V. De Matrimonio*](https://archive.org/details/Cappello1947N.822840PA), p. 805: “Neuter conjux per se tenetur petere debitum, quia nemo tenetur uti jure suo. Per accidens autem potest adesse obligatio petendi, praesertim in viro … si usus matrimonii necessarius est ad fovendum amorem vel ad dissidia avertenda.”; cf. also: H. Noldin, S.J., and A. Schmitt, S.J., *De Sexto Praecepto et De Usu Matrimonii* (31st ed., Oeniponte: Rauch, 1940), p. 92; Merkelbach, [*Summa Theologiæ Moralis (vol. 3): De sacramentis*](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=7204), p. 964 [PDF p. 481].