As the struggle over “social issues” continues unabated in the United States, the Church universal prayerfully seeks ways to counter a global slide into secularism.
According to a Catholic News Agency report, a meeting of the world’s bishops this October in Rome is likely to identify the family as the key place for beginning the re-evangelization of the Western world.
A Feb. 27 communiqué issued by the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops identified the family as “the primary place for the transmission of faith.” It is in the family, the communiqué said, where “the faith is communicated to young people, who, in the family, learn both the contents and practice” of Catholic belief.
As “charity begins at home,” so does faith.
The Synod of Bishops will meet Oct. 7-28 to discuss the “New Evangelization,” a topic that has been dear to the hearts of popes since Paul VI.
It makes sense that the Vatican should focus on families at a time when Western governments are increasingly embracing values that put the traditional family under great pressure. As the Church strives to defend the family, so families are being called to witness to the importance of marriage and family at a time when many people view other arrangements as equally legitimate.
Most Catholics are not called to be priests, religious or preachers. Most people are called to the married life, and most married people have children.
Yes, the Church needs the laity to help in many and various ways. Primarily, the Church needs her married laity, whether they have been blessed with children or not, to be faithful to their vocations.
They are called to live out that vocation in a “domestic church,” a community of life and love, each spouse helping the other to get to heaven, and both striving to lead their children to eternal beatitude.
On this Solemnity of the Annunciation, celebrated this year on Monday, March 26, it is worth recalling that it was through a family — the Holy Family — that Christ entered the world. God is still using families to sanctify that world.
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Parasitic socialism/capitalism.
In everything created, there is the bad choice of corruption, even the angels were corrupted.
Having said this, we must appreciate the we have allowed ‘parasitic-socialism’ (also parasitic-capitalism) to benefit financially from the demise, and the break-down of the family.
Our Lady of America, pray for us.
The Catechsim of the Catholic Church teaches that the basic unit of society is the family. The “ills” of society have risen up as a result of the breakdown of the family, thus arrising the “social issues.” And the so-called “answers” to these problems (i.e. gay marriage, contraception, abortion, euthanasia) proposed and imposed by the anti-Christians/anti-Catholics/atheists only FURTHER ADVANCE the breakdown of the family, thus creating more social issues and making the problem worse. Unless you preserve the basic building block of society - the famly - expect further crumbling of the society at large.
Let us look to St. Gianna Molla, wife, mother, and professional and her husband Peter for an example of living fidelity to the domestic church and to choosing life over self.
Some 23 years ago, it was noticed that The Children’s Aid Society, was using a model for ‘child abuse’ that incorporated the ‘cult-feminist’ philosophy of ‘women as victims’ and only isolated men in general as abusers.
As a systems analyst of sorts, it became obvious to me that this was a sign of a political corruption of this organization. Blatant systemic error in the framework.
Upon examining this model, “men who abuse, women and children victims” is was noted that this slogan was a half-truth. Problem was that the definition in the dictionary did not adequately include this type of half-truth. Some 20 years of research resulted in a variety of new types of half-truths being identified.
The polarization of the family has been accelerated and in some cases initiated by a hidden anti-family agenda, and half-truths, or truths that lie, because they are parts-of-the-truth; tools of the devil.
One revealing ‘confession’ was made by Judy Rebick, American born, Canadian feminist, who stated, ‘lesbians were at the heart of the feminist movement, even though they did not pursue their issues…”
Family, is not men and women, it is husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, and children.
The devil lies in the details, especially the missing ones. (based on the book, THE LIGHT; THE RAINBOW OF TRUTH - The Jesus Christ Code )
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