NOT TO DO SO WOULD BE “A SERIOUS PASTORAL OMISSION” SAYS POPE
Vatican — In his recent speech to the Bishops of Brazil, Pope John Paul II, speaking of the problems of abortion and homosexuality said, “It is necessary to give a firm response to this situation, especially through more incisive educational and catechetic activity.”
“A lack of moral values,” he said, “opens the door to infidelity and the dissolution of marriage. The civil laws that promote divorce and threaten life by trying to introduce abortion officially; the population control campaigns that … encourage thousands of women to be sterilized and to use contraception, especially in the north, have dramatic consequences.” In addition, he continued, “there are many attempts, in public opinion and civil legislation, at equating the family with mere de facto unions and at recognizing same sex unions as marriages. These and other anomalies urge us to proclaim with pastoral firmness the truth on marriage and family. It would be a serious pastoral omission not to do so.”
See the original speech delivered in Portuguese.
(This update courtesy of LifeSite News.)
