What is the nature of the family in the plan of God?

455. What does the fourth commandment require?

It commands us to honor and respect our parents and those whom God, for our good, has vested with his authority.

Further reading: CCC 2196-2200, 2247-2248


456. What is the nature of the family in the plan of God?

A man a woman united in marriage form a family together with their children. God instituted the family and endowed it with its fundamental constitution. Marriage and the family are ordered to the good of the spouses and to the procreation and education of children. Members of the same family establish among themselves personal relationships and primary responsibilities. In Christ the family becomes the domestic church because it is a community of faith, of hope, and of charity.

Further reading: CCC 2201-2205, 2249