QUOTATIONS FROM A RECENT ADDRESS GIVEN BY
POPE FRANCIS
“The crisis in the family has produced an ecological
crisis, for social environments, like natural environments, need protection.
And although the human race has come to understand the need to address
conditions that menace our natural environments, we have been slower to
recognize that our fragile social environments are under threat as well, slower
in our culture, and also in the Catholic Church. It is therefore essential that
we foster a new human ecology.”
“It is necessary first to promote the fundamental pillars
that govern a nation: its non-material goods.
The family is the foundation of co-existence and a remedy against social
fragmentation. Children have a right to
grow up in a family with a father and a mother capable of creating a suitable
environment for the child’s development and emotional maturity.
The Holy Father goes on to say: “That is why I stressed in
the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii
Gaudium that the contribution of marriage to society is “indispensable”;
that it “transcends the feelings and momentary needs of the couple.” (n. 66)
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| POPE FRANCIS WITH MSGR. STEENSON, OUR ORDINARY |
The Church affirms that at the heart of the family is the
beauty of complementarity between man and woman in marriage. This is not a cultural or social construct
but is foundational to human flourishing.
Pope Francis again: “Do not fall into the trap of being
swayed by political notions. Family is an anthropological fact – a socially and
culturally related fact. We cannot qualify it based on ideological notions or
concepts important only at one time in history. We can’t think of conservative
or progressive notions. Family is a family.”
Pope Francis: “I
urge you to lift up yet another truth about marriage: that permanent commitment
to solidarity, fidelity and fruitful love responds to the deepest longings of
the human heart. I urge you to bear in
mind especially the young people, who represent our future. Commit yourselves,
so that our youth do not give themselves over to the poisonous environment of
the temporary, but rather be revolutionaries with the courage to seek true and
lasting love, going against the common pattern.”
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