2011-01-14 16:17:05

Pope urges regional administrations to support family


(January 14, 2011) Pope Benedict XVI on Friday met the administration of Rome city, Rome Province and Lazio Region of Italy and urged them to protect and support the traditional family. “The original cell of society is the family, based on the marriage between a man and a woman,” the Pope told Rome mayor Giovanni Alemanno, Rome Province president, Nicola Zingaretti and Lazio Region president Renata Polverini, who along with their officials met the Pontiff in the Vatican to exchange New Year’s greetings. Arguing that “it is in the family that children learn human and Christian values that lead to a constructive and peaceful coexistence,” the Pope said, “the family, therefore must be supported by administrative policies which are not limited to providing solutions for emergencies, but must have as their goal the consolidation and development of the family, and must be accompanied by adequate educative work.” He regretted that sometimes serious cases of violence occur and some aspects of the family crisis triggered by rapid social and cultural changes are amplified. “Even approving certain forms of union that pervert the essence and purpose of the family, lead to penalizing those who try to live stable affective bonds, that are guaranteed by law and publicly recognized,” the Pontiff said denouncing alternatives to traditional family. The Pope who is also bishop of Rome, expressed the Church’s appreciation for all the initiatives aimed at educating the young to live their life in an act of self-giving, with a high and sacred vision of sexuality.







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