Defend family and marriage, Pope exhorts faithful
December 28, 2009
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As the Catholic Church celebrating the feast of the Holy Family, Pope Benedict XVI said that “one of the greatest services which we as Christians can offer our fellow men and women is to show them the serene and solid witness of a family founded upon marriage between a man and a woman, defending it and protecting it, because it is of supreme importance for the present and future of humankind.”
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Dec. 28, 2009 8:31 PM ET USA
One of the most important steps the Holy Father can take to defend marriage and reduce divorce among Catholics is to close down most of the diocesan tribunals in the United States. They have a 40-year history of declaring marriages null because "the Petitioner always wanted more attention from his father," "my much too close relationship with my mother," "the Respondent would not share with him 'things from her past of which she was ashamed. . . ." Examples taken from actual cases. Stupidity!
