Grateful that Pope Benedict XVI spoke on this topic, but until the Tribunals which issue thousands of 'Null' verdicts based on slippery psychological reasoning are told to stop and return to defending the permanency of marriage, things won't change much in this day of forced, unilateral 'No Fault' Divorce. Why it takes the 'threat' of same sex marriage to begin to see that there is danger in the land, I have NO idea.
Truth needs to be spoken again from the pulpits about the permanency of marriage, about Jesus' words that divorce and 're' marriage being adultery, and causing adultery.
Paul tells us in 1Cor 7 that the Lord said to remain single or reconcile....not hit the local Tribunals for 'false compassion' annulments that allow adulterers to divorce their spouse, invite the 'other person' into the marital home and bed, then into a 'second marriage'... then into seeking permission to marry in the Church by going and getting an annulment.... or being told to live together as brother and sister in order to care for the children of the second 'marriage'... thereby ignoring the children of the first marriage (and the ONLY marriage that God may recognise in the final analysis when standing before Him...no matter what MANKIND, civil or Church may say... )
TRUTH sets us free, not a false spirit of compassion...listen to the children... read Elizabeth Marquardt.
God bless! HT to Nancy Valko, RN .. thanks, Nancy!
LORETO, Italy (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday decried the collapse of marriages, telling tens of thousands of young Catholics that he was praying a crisis in traditional family values doesn't become an "irreversible failure."
Benedict told an estimated 300,000 young pilgrims who trekked to the shrine city of Loreto for a weekend religious rally to have faith that they can succeed in marriage even though so many others had failed.
"There is so much failure of love all around us," Benedict told the crowd, camped out on a vast, dusty field. "How many couples don't succeed and separate? How many families end up in pieces? How many young people, even among you, have seen their parents separate and divorce?"
After hearing young people's stories about their broken homes and living on the periphery of society, he assured them that he and the entire Roman Catholic Church were praying "that the crisis that is affecting families today doesn't become an irreversible failure."
Benedict has frequently decried the collapse of family values and has spoken of the need to support "traditional" marriage between man and woman. The Italian bishops conference — which organized the rally — has mounted a major campaign to support traditional families and oppose proposed Italian legislation giving same-sex couples several legal rights.
The pope told the crowd to have faith that God would help them, even though they may ask themselves how they could succeed in marriage where their friends and families had failed.
"Do not be afraid," he said, repeating a phrase often used by Pope John Paul II.
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