Pope Francis: Christian marriage "not an ideal
for the few"
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis
on Friday said the Church’s teaching on marriage is not an “ideal for the few,”
but “a reality that, in the grace of Christ, can be experienced by all the
baptized.”
He Holy Father was speaking
the Tribunal of the Roman Rota, the Vatican court which mainly deals with
marriage annulment cases.
In his address inaugurating
the judicial year, Pope Francis said the court’s role as Tribunal of
the Family, and its role as Tribunal of the Truth of the Sacred
Bond are complementary.
“The Church… can show the
unfailing merciful love of God to families - especially those wounded by sin
and the trials of life – and, at the same time, proclaim the essential truth of
marriage according to God's design,” Pope Francis said.
“When the Church, through
your service, sets about to declare the truth about marriage in a concrete
case, for the good of the faithful, at the same time you must always remember
that those who, by choice or unhappy circumstances of life, are living in an
objective state of error, continue to be the object of the merciful love of
Christ and thus the Church herself,” he continued.
The Holy Father pointed out
the recent two-year Synod process on the family said to the world that “there
can be no confusion” between the family as willed by God, and every other type
of union.
Reaffirming the doctrine of
the Church, the Holy Father said the “quality of faith” is not an essential
condition of marital consent, and pointed out the faith infused at baptism
continues to have influence on the soul even “when it has not been developed
and even seems to be psychologically absent.”
He added it is not uncommon
for couples to discover “the fullness of God’s plan” for marriage after their
wedding, when they have begun to experience family life.
“Therefore, the Church, with
a renewed sense of responsibility, continues to propose marriage in its
essentials - offspring, good of the couple, unity, indissolubility,
sacramentality - not as ideal only for a few - notwithstanding modern models
centered on the ephemeral and the transient - but as a reality that, in the
grace of Christ, can be experienced by all the baptized faithful,” said Pope
Francis.
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