Vatican
City, 20 September 2013 (VIS) – This morning a press conference was
held in the Holy See Press Office, with the participation of
Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Council for
the Family, Helen Alvare, professor of law, and Francesco D'Agostino,
an Italian jurist, to present the international work-conference on
“The Rights of the Family and the Challenges of the Contemporary
World”, scheduled to take place from 19 to 21 September.
In
his address, Archbishop Paglia described the family as the subject of
rights which are strictly related to the rights of the individual;
“indeed, the family is a communion of persons, and its
self-realisation depends to a significant degree on the correct
application of the rights of those who compose this unit. Some of
these rights are directly related to the family, such as the right of
parents to responsible procreation and the education of their
offspring; other rights, instead, relate to the nuclear family only
indirectly”.
The
archbishop emphasised that the Charter of the Rights of the Family,
thirty years after its publication, is unfortunately still a
“little-known document”, despite being “a prophetic appeal in
favour of the institution of the family, which should be respected
and defended from all forms of usurpation”. He added that the
Pontifical Council wished to convene an international conference,
linked to the Association of Italian Catholic Jurists, to “return
to the inspiration for these principles. It is true that we find
ourselves in a new cultural context that questions the institution of
the family even more radically than in the past. But the validity of
the principles gathered and ordered in the Charter stands firm to
this day”.
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