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Casti Connubii was promulgated by Pope Pius XI in response to the approval of the use of contraception by the Anglican Lambeth Conference of 1930. It stresses the sanctity of marriage and reaffirms traditional Catholic teaching against contraception and abortion.
“Thus amongst the blessings of marriage, the child holds the first place” (source)
“and hence these laws cannot be subject to any human decrees or to any contrary pact even of the spouses themselves” (source)
“matrimony was not instituted or restored by man but by God” (source)
“unity, chastity, charity, honorable noble obedience” (source)
“The primary end of marriage is the procreation and the education of children” (source)