Challenge 'defamilied' security ideas head-on, Vatican official urges

October 07, 2014

Modern society has an unhealthy understanding of family life, which the Church must “confront head-on,” the president of the Pontifical Council for the Family told the National Catholic Register.

Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia said that society is becoming “de-familied,” and therefore unstable. The problem, he said, stems from a “boundless individualism” that the Church resists.

While some participants in the Synod of Bishops have suggested that the Church should make life easier for Christian couples, Archbishop Paglia had a very different viewpoint. “We ask too little,” he said. “We have to ask more of families.”

 

---

For all current news, visit our News home page.

---

 
Further information:

• Archbishop Paglia: We Are in a ‘De-Familied’ Society (National Catholic Register)