By Mark Tooley, Juicy Ecumenism blog
Pope Francis has offered counsel over the last week that culturally adrift Protestants and Evangelicals especially should heed the timeless truths regarding human life intrinsic to Christian faith and organic to nature itself, not based on Christian scripture exclusively but available to all creation.
Yesterday November 17, the Pope, at an interfaith convo at the Vatican on the family called “Humanum,” robustly affirmed the divinely created “complementarity” of male and female, the unchanging definition of natural marriage, the family as an “anthropological fact,” and the “right” of children to “grow up in a family with a father and mother.”
Criticizing the growing “culture of the temporary,” the Pope noted: “This revolution in manners and morals has often flown the flag of freedom, but in fact it has brought spiritual and material devastation to countless human beings, especially the poorest and most vulnerable.” He warned: “Evidence is mounting that the decline of the marriage culture is associated with increased poverty and a host of other social ills, disproportionately affecting women, children and the elderly. It is always they who suffer the most in this crisis.”
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amen and amen. i’ve seen a number of stories on the internet claiming Pope Francis is a liberal. these stories are simply not true. society has devolved to the point of animal behavior, he’s in a difficult situation, trying to get across the timeless message while simultaneously trying not to push the lost sheep further into wilderness.