Visiting Pope Benedict XVI yesterday urged Catholics to courageously defend the traditional family.
The Pontiff, who celebrated an open-air Mass before hundreds of thousands of peopele on the second day of his visit to Croatia, warned couples cohabiting outside wedlock that living together was no substitute for marriage.
“Dear families be courageous! Do not give in to that secularised mentality which proposes living together as a preparation, or even a substitute for marriage!” he said in his homily during Mass at a hippodrome outside the capital.
The head of the world’s 1.1 billion Roman Catholics urged lawmakers to introduce legislation that “supports families in the task of giving birth to children and educating them”. READ MORE
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There is something paradoxical about celibacy and family values. The Holy Quran says about it:
Then We caused Our Messengers to follow in their footsteps; and We caused Jesus, son of Mary, to follow them, and We gave him the Gospel. And We placed in the hearts of those who accepted him compassion and mercy. But monasticism which they invented for themselves — We did not prescribe it for them — for the seeking of Allah’s pleasure; but they did not observe it with due observance. Yet We gave those of them who believed their due reward, but many of them are rebellious. (Al Quran 57:28)
MUHAMMAD, MAY PEACE BE ON HIM: THE RESTORER OF FAMILY VALUES:
http://www.alislam.org/library/articles/Muhammad-saw-The-restorer-of-family-values-20090131MN.pdf