Catholic Dads

Pope tells bishops: kids need married moms and dads

March 26th, 2010

Earlier this week, the Scandinavian bishops travelled to Rome for their ad limina visit. In his audience with them, the Holy Father spoke about family life:

“Children have the right to be conceived and carried in the womb, brought into the world and brought up within marriage: It is through the secure and recognized relationship to their own parents that they can discover their identity and achieve their proper human development.”

“In societies with a noble tradition of defending the rights of all their members, one would expect this fundamental right of children to be given priority over any supposed right of adults to impose on them alternative models of family life and certainly over any supposed right to abortion.”

“Since the family is the first and indispensable teacher of peace, the most reliable promoter of social cohesion and the best school of the virtues of good citizenship, it is in the interests of all, and especially of governments, to defend and promote stable family life.”

The entire address is available on Zenit.

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