VATICAN CITY, MAY 31, 2001 (VIS) - This morning the Holy Father received the grand chancellor, president, professors and students of the "John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family," on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of its foundation. The Institute is a part of the Pontifical Lateran University.
In his discourse, the Pope addressed the theme of "the need to devise a fitting anthropology which seeks to understand and interpret man in what is essentially human."
"Disregard of the principle of man's creation as masculine and feminine represents, in effect," he affirmed, "one of the factors of greatest crisis and weakness in contemporary society. ... Where the principle is lost, the perception of the singular dignity of the human person is obscured and the way is opened to a threatening 'culture of death'."
John Paul II emphasized that "a particularly current and decisive aspect for the future of the family and of humanity concerns the respect of man in his origins and the modalities of his procreation. ... With the pretext, in fact, of assuring a better quality of existence through genetic control, or in developing medical and scientific research, experiments on human embryos and methods for their production are proposed which open the door to exploitation and abuse on the part of those who unduly claim an arbitrary and limitless power over the human being."
"The context of spousal love and the corporeal mediation of the conjugal act are therefore the only place in which the singular value of the new human being, called to life, is fully recognized and respected. ... Every person that comes into the world is eternally called by the Father to participate in Christ, through the Spirit, in the fullness of life in God."
The Pope then referred to "the permissive legislation, in certain countries, ... founded upon erroneous concepts of freedom, (which) have favored ... presumed alternative family models, no longer founded on the irrevocable commitment of a man and a woman to form a 'lifelong community'." Furthermore, he added, "the rights specifically recognized as proper to the family ... have been extended to forms of association, to de facto unions, to civil agreements of solidarity."
"The shrewd promotion of similar juridical-institutional models," John Paul II concluded, "tends ever more to dissolve the original right of the family to be recognized as a social subject with full rights."
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In his discourse, the Pope addressed the theme of "the need to devise a fitting anthropology which seeks to understand and interpret man in what is essentially human."
"Disregard of the principle of man's creation as masculine and feminine represents, in effect," he affirmed, "one of the factors of greatest crisis and weakness in contemporary society. ... Where the principle is lost, the perception of the singular dignity of the human person is obscured and the way is opened to a threatening 'culture of death'."
John Paul II emphasized that "a particularly current and decisive aspect for the future of the family and of humanity concerns the respect of man in his origins and the modalities of his procreation. ... With the pretext, in fact, of assuring a better quality of existence through genetic control, or in developing medical and scientific research, experiments on human embryos and methods for their production are proposed which open the door to exploitation and abuse on the part of those who unduly claim an arbitrary and limitless power over the human being."
"The context of spousal love and the corporeal mediation of the conjugal act are therefore the only place in which the singular value of the new human being, called to life, is fully recognized and respected. ... Every person that comes into the world is eternally called by the Father to participate in Christ, through the Spirit, in the fullness of life in God."
The Pope then referred to "the permissive legislation, in certain countries, ... founded upon erroneous concepts of freedom, (which) have favored ... presumed alternative family models, no longer founded on the irrevocable commitment of a man and a woman to form a 'lifelong community'." Furthermore, he added, "the rights specifically recognized as proper to the family ... have been extended to forms of association, to de facto unions, to civil agreements of solidarity."
"The shrewd promotion of similar juridical-institutional models," John Paul II concluded, "tends ever more to dissolve the original right of the family to be recognized as a social subject with full rights."
AC;FAMILY; MARRIAGE;...;...;VIS;20010531;Word: 410;
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