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Dec 31, 2022 · In the medieval period, Jean Gerson, theologian at the Council of Constance (1414-18), encouraged devotion to the Holy Family, and Pope Leo XIII said that imitation of the Holy Family would be a means to revitalize and strengthen family life. In the third millennium the institution of the family once again suffers attacks politically and socially.
The birth rate in the United States is now twelve children born each year for every thousand Americans. By even calculation, the family in our country—as we approach the third millennium—is ...
Defending the Family. We are still addressing ourselves to our responsibility for family life into the third millennium. But now we shift our attention to the widespread threats which the family faces in our day. No one has written more forcefully about these threats than our present Holy Father, Pope John Paul II.
The Fourth World Meeting of Families, themed "The Christian Family: Good News for the Third Millennium", took place January 22-24, 2003. The meeting was held in the Philippines, the only Catholic country in Asia -- 84% of its estimated population of more than 84 million is Catholic - in what has been dubbed by the Holy Father as the Asian ...
The Holy Father sees the coming Third Millennium as a time of decision that depends on us. Yet, it is also a time of God's warnings to us about our lives, about what we do and believe, about how ...
Jan 15, 2003 · For this reason, we can only be extremely pleased that the next World Meeting of Families will take place in Manila from January 22nd to the 26th on the theme, "The Christian Family: Good News for the Third Millennium". In fact, only starting from a healthy, solid situation of the human family is it possible to hope for and expect a better world where people will live in tranquillity and ...
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Apr 12, 2002 · The fundamental task of the family is to serve life, to actualize in history the original blessing of the Creator that of transmitting by procreation the divine image from person to person (cf. Gen 5:1-3). The Family and Life: An Inseparable Pair . The family has a decisive responsibility. This responsibility flows from its very nature as a ...