Family is topic for Pope's final appearance in Cuba
September 23, 2015
Pope Francis focused on the family on the final stop of his visit to Cuba.
At a meeting with families in the cathedral of Santiago, the Pope said: “It is in the home that we learn to receive, to appreciate life as a blessing, and to realize that we need one another to move forward.” He reminded his audience that the family is the “domestic Church.”
“The family saves us from two present-day phenomena: fragmentation and uniformity,” the Pope said. In the family, he explained, each person is treated as a member of the community rather than an isolated individual. He added that in societies marked by breakdown of family ties, the results are division, separation, isolation, and, paradoxically, a call to uniformity.
Before leaving Cuba the Pope thanked the country’s people for their hospitality, saying that he felt a “warmth spread by people who know how to welcome.”
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