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The Catholic Church must respond to cultural challenges facing marriage and family life with unity and compassion, Pope Francis said, and he called for a deeper integration of the Gospel into contemporary culture.
“The challenges, problems and hopes that pertain to marriage and the family today are inscribed in the relationship between church and culture,” he told students, professors and staff of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences.
Pope Francis referred to St. Paul VI’s affirmation that the “rupture between the Gospel and culture is the tragedy of our age,” and he noted that St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI deepened the question of inculturation in the church by “focusing on the issues of interculturality and globalization.”
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“The challenges, problems and hopes that pertain to marriage and the family today are inscribed in the relationship between church and culture,” he told students, professors and staff of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences.
Pope Francis referred to St. Paul VI’s affirmation that the “rupture between the Gospel and culture is the tragedy of our age,” and he noted that St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI deepened the question of inculturation in the church by “focusing on the issues of interculturality and globalization.”
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Pope asks St. John Paul II institute to study threats to marriage, family
The Catholic Church must respond to cultural challenges facing marriage and family life with unity and compassion, Pope Francis said.
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