"'Marriage Was Made in Heaven': The Special Creation of Adam and Eve as the Foundation of the Church's Teaching on Holy Marriage"

A Seminar Sponsored by the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation

Presenter: Hugh Owen, Director of the Kolbe Center

"The true origin of marriage, venerable brothers, is well known to all . . .We record what is to all known, and cannot be doubted by any, that God, on the sixth day of creation, having made man from the slime of the earth, and having breathed into his face the breath of life, gave him a companion, whom He miraculously took from the side of Adam when he was locked in sleep . . . And this union of man and woman . . . even from the beginning manifested chiefly two most excellent properties . . . namely, unity and perpetuity" (emphasis added) (Pope Leo XIII, Arcanum, 5)