Pope Benedict XVI attacks coexistence and gay couples
Article by Roberto Monteforte taken from L'Unità, 10 march 2012
"Cohabitation is a serious sin of which, however, there is no adequate awareness". "Sexual difference is essential for marriage." This marks Pope Benedict XVI to a group of US bishops received yesterday on the visit "Ad Limina" ... "(ed.: Thank God, cohabiting and married, straight and homo, we will all be judged on love ...). Thus the pontiff returns to defend the traditional family based on the marriage between a man and a woman and invites the bishops to do the same. The other forms of union, he adds, "damage social stability". Below are gay marriages, on which the Anglican Church has been divided, and the other forms of unions.
The Pope invites us to counter the "powerful political and cultural currents" which in the US intend to alter the "legal definition" of the family founded on marriage. He asks to battle against the lobbies who are about to snatch the placet of the White House at gay marriages. Also accusation are also the questioning of the "indissolubility of marriage" and the refusal to "responsible sexuality". Ratzinger insists.
He reiterates the standing points on Marriage: "A natural institution that consists of a specific communion of people, essentially rooted in the complementarity of the sexes and Oriented Towards procreation". therefore "sexual differences cannot be considered irrelevant in defining marriage".
For the Pope, defending the institution of marriage as a social reality represents "a question of justice, since it includes the safeguarding of the good of the entire human community, the rights of parents and those of the children". To the bishops he asks for a concrete commitment in their "pastoral and liturgical" action that gives "unequivocal testimony of the objective obligations of Christian morality".
Insists in asking to recall the company not to "consider the sexual difference for the definition of marriage as irrelevant", as well as invite to oppose "to the indexuality of the indissolubility of the marriage agreement and of a mature understanding of the ethical foundation of chastity, which He led to serious social problems and immense human and economic costs ».
