Posted on 09/11/2015 6:34:36 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
Pope Francis says that in the face of "ideological colonizations," married couples are called to give testimony as a "happy family," but must also go beyond giving testimony and find concrete ways to support other couples.
The Pope said this today when he addressed the Équipes Notre Dame [Teams of Our Lady], a lay movement for married couples that has spread to more than 70 countries since its founding by Father Enrico Caffarel in France in the 1940s.
The Bishop of Rome called the couples, strengthened by their meeting as "Teams," to make a commitment as missionaries.
He said this commitment is ever more important as the "image of the family -- as God wills it, made up of one man and one woman in view of the good of the spouses and also of the generation and education of children -- is deformed through powerful contrary projects supported by ideological colonizations."
The Holy Father has referred before to what he calls "ideological colonization." For example, on his trip to the Philippines in January, during his meeting with families, he said this "colonization" is not "born of the dream that we have with God from prayer and the mission that God gives us. It comes [from] outside."
He clarified further on the return flight from the Philippines, recalling an example of this "ideological colonization" from 20 years ago, when a loan was promised to a minister of education, but on the condition that a school book with gender theory was used. He noted that the bishops of Africa often decry that their cultures are being victimized by this "ideological colonization."
In his address to the Teams of Our Lady today, the Pope recognized that married couples are "already missionaries" just by the testimony of their family life in their own social, professional and family circles.
"A happy and balanced family, inhabited by the presence of God," he said, "speaks on its own of the love of God for all men."
Still, the Pope said, couples need to commit themselves to do more.
He said that whenever it is possible, they should take up "with renewed creativity" concrete activities that can "receive, form, and support" couples in the faith, particularly young couples, before and after their marriage.
Mammals and reptiles living together !!!
Our cats like to sit on top of the lizard cages, causing the lizards to scamper around hysterically trying to break out through the walls. Nature, red in fang and claw ...
LINKS:
"Pope Bemoans Gay Lobby" (LINK)
Pope Francis Tells Couples To Wait Until Marriage To Have Sex
Pope Francis: Gender Theory Is a Threat to Society
Pope: Marriage between man and woman is threatened by gender ideology
Pope Francis: “Children have a ‘Right’ to a Mother and Father”
The Closed Door of Pope Francis (Speaks against abortion, divorce, and homosexuality)
Pope Francis: marriage inscribed in creation (Man/Woman)
Pope Francis and the family, the next step (pro-Traditional Family)
Pope Francis is starting to look a lot like Sarah Palin (Guardian UK dumps Francis)
A Letter to Pope Francis (Pope defends man-woman marriage)
Pope Rejects ‘So-Called Gender Theory’
Pope Rejected Gay French Diplomat as Ambassador to Holy See
Pope Francis 'refuses' gay French ambassador
Kasper is Not the 'Pope's Theologian,' Says Leading African Cardinal
Cardinal Burke Denies Rift With Pope, Warns of ‘Gay Agenda’ for Synod
Pope Rejects ‘So-Called Gender Theory’
Pope Rejected Gay French Diplomat as Ambassador to Holy See
Pope Francis 'refuses' gay French ambassador
Pope Francis condemns gender theory a third time: ‘The family is under attack’
Pope Francis defends church’s opposition to artificial contraception
Pope Francis Defends Human Nature Against Gender Radicals
Pope's Shocking Hitler Youth Comparison (Pope blasts gender theory)
Pope Francis: ‘The Choice To Not Have Children Is Selfish’
Pope declares couples who don’t want kids ‘selfish,’ says they are part of a ‘greedy generation’
Pope Francis on abortion: ‘Never, never does killing a person resolve a problem’
Bringing children into the world is never a ‘mistake’: Pope Francis
Don’t be afraid to have more children: Pope Francis
Pope Francis supports Slovak effort to ban gay ‘marriage’, adoption
Pope Francis Defends Human Nature Against Gender Radicals
Pope's Shocking Hitler Youth Comparison (Pope blasts gender theory)
Pope to Catholic couples: you can’t get married if you’re not open to children
Pope Francis praises Humanae Vitae, warns of attacks on family
Pope Didn’t Bless ‘Gender Theory’ Children’s Books
Vatican says 'no' to transsexual godparents amid Spain controversy
God willing he stays so True.
Very comforting.
As it should be.
Link #2: Ed Peters (whom I would consult) didn't express or imply anything morally objectionable in Pope Francis/Bergoglio's motivations or actions.
A second look at Mitis, especially at the new fast-track annulment process
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3334817/posts?page=26#26
Good for you.
Why did you choose not to post that link in your Post 22 on this thread?
Poetic license, perhaps?
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