Read the Silere non possum complete article HERE which includes Pope Leo’s English text.
Pope Leo’s Christian Response to Ephemeral and Selfish Unions
In these troubled and disoriented times…”
The most striking passage of the text also reflects Pope Leo XIV’s doctrinal line on marriage and the family. The Pope writes: “In these troubled and disoriented times, when so many counter-models of ephemeral, individualistic, and selfish unions, bearing bitter and disappointing fruits, are proposed to the young, the family — as the Creator willed it — may seem outdated or dull. Louis and Zélie Martin prove the contrary: they were happy, profoundly happy, by giving life, radiating and transmitting the faith, watching their daughters grow and flourish under the Lord’s gaze.”
Behind this lucid and direct statement lies a precise theological vision: marriage, according to the will of the Creator, is the stable union between a man and a woman, founded on faithful love and open to life. All other forms of relationships — which the Pope defines as “counter-models of ephemeral, individualistic, and selfish unions” — do not lead to the fullness of the person, but produce, as he writes, “bitter and disappointing fruits.”
Leo XIV warns against conceiving freedom as self-sufficiency and love as emotional consumption. The family, instead, remains the place of covenant, of transmission of faith, of education and mutual growth. “Louis and Zélie — the Pope recalls — were happy in giving life,” that is, by going beyond themselves, living love as total gift, not
2 comments:
"Fr" Martin, SJ,LGBT will have a big mad now!
Well exactly what you’d expect the pope to say but the reality is people (gay or straight) have been having sex outside marriage since Adam and Eve (and they will continue to do so!).
Is the pope Catholic, comes to mind?!
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