How Does the Catholic Church View Marital Intimacy?
The Catholic Church teaches that marital intimacy is a profound good – a gift of total self-giving between husband and wife that carries two inseparable meanings: unitive (drawing the spouses closer together) and procreative (open to the possibility of new life). Far from being suspicious of the body or sexuality, the Church sees conjugal love as one of the most powerful expressions of what it means to be made in God’s image. The body speaks a language, and in marriage, that language says: “I give you all of me, without reservation.” ...