Marriage: dynamic love renewed with every awakening
5th anniversary of Amoris Laetitia
The year dedicated to the family on the fifth anniversary of Amoris Laetitia was proclaimed by Pope Francis on 27 December 2020, to allow the fruits of the post-synodal apostolic exhortation to ripen and make the Church closer to families in the world, put to the test in this last year since the pandemic. This year will end on June 26, 2022, with the tenth World Meeting of Families. The reflections that will mature will be made available to ecclesial communities and families, to accompany them on their journey.
by Nico Rutigliano
«The alliance of man and woman, which envelops history and the human condition – explains Pierangelo Sequeri, Dean of the Pontifical Institute John Paul II – hinges on the family, but goes beyond its family grammar: the Christian vocation is that to bring this alliance to the places of politics, economics, law, care and culture".
Saint Paul's hymn to charity is the winning key to marriage
Amoris laetitia
by Don Nico Rutigliano
Pope Francis chose to comment on the Hymn to Charity and not the Song of Songs in Amoris Laetitia, because he wanted to focus the apostolic exhortation on concreteness.
Many marriages would have ended if there wasn't the charity that Saint Paul talks about, because many times marital indissolubility is seen more as an effort by the spouses, than the daily response to something greater than the spouses themselves.
Synod on the family: Problems, Synod on the family: problems, resources and prospects
«We must not lower the mountain, but help people climb it»
by Angelo Sceppacerca
On the plane that took him back to Rome, after three days (24-26 May) full of meetings, movements, talks, interventions in Jordan, Palestine and Israel, Pope Francis did not shy away from the journalists' questions ("The pit of lions!, but I don't think you are lions!”). Among the questions, that of a representative of the German language on the topic of the next Synod on the family: “You are opening up many expectations both within the Church and in the international community. Inside the Church, for example, what will happen with communion for divorced and remarried people?”.
Family: extinction alarm in Italy
by Don Nico Rutigliano
As Vittorino Andreoli wisely writes «the family has become a topic of consumption and, instead, we need to enter the family, talk “with” the family, not “about” the family».
Andreoli, a well-known national psychiatrist, was asked: "Why must marriage last?" He replied: «Because marriage is a “sacred” bond. Marriage must also last "to respond to the tasks of raising children", to teach how to live in today's difficult and constantly changing world."
The pearls of John Paul II
by Angelo Sceppacerca
Always in view of the next Synod of Bishops on the family, but with the images of the canonization of Pope John Paul II still in our eyes (27 April), we want to offer our readers some pearls of his vast teaching on the family and some flashes of personalities who they only knew him, but they were chosen by him and for many years were his expert collaborators in academic institutions on family issues