Pontifical Council for the Family
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This study has been produced by the Pontifical Council for the Family at a time when the role of the family and its status as the natural home of human procreation is coming under increasing pressure. New models of families have emerged from radical movements claiming all the rights traditionally associated with the natural family, and recent advances in reproductive technologies have given new options for the conception of children outside of any conjugal union. At the same time divorce is ever more frequent and easy and ever more people are living in de facto unions. Such sustained attacks on the family have had disturbing repurcussions on procreation in general with low birth rates in the West exacerbating many social and economic problems.
With such a dramatic situation as a backdrop this document reads signs of the times and responds with clarity looking at the underlying loss of a sense of God and respect for life and re-proposing the Magesterium of the Church on the family to the Church and the world, "so that Christian families may carry out the educative, evangelising and apostolic mission to which they have been called".
The Pontifical council for the family was instituted by John Paul II in 1981. The council is responsible for the promotion of the pastoral ministry and apostolate to the family, through the application of the teachings and guidelines of the ecclesiastical Magesterium, to help Christian families fulfill their educational and apostolic mission.
Pages: 54
Format: Paperback
Availability: In stock
ISBN: 1 86082 412 9
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