Mater Ecclesiae Monastery prepares for Benedict XVI's return to Vatican on May 2. Historic times indeed, a pope praying for the pope. Times must really be tough that we need two popes, a pope emertus praying hard and a new pope talking tough. I love BXVI and his leaving Vatican last February 28 was a tender and moving moment. He will be returning by helicopter around 4:30 or 5:00 in the afternoon. Hopefully, there will be some media coverage.
Reading the CDF document on homosexual unions. 2. The Church's teaching on marriage and on the complementarity of the sexes reiterates a truth that is evident to right reason and recognized as such by all the major cultures of the world. Marriage is not just any relationship between human beings. It was established by the Creator with its own nature, essential properties and purpose.(3) No ideology can erase from the human spirit the certainty that marriage exists solely between a man and a woman, who by mutual personal gift, proper and exclusive to themselves, tend toward the communion of their persons. In this way, they mutually perfect each other, in order to cooperate with God in the procreation and upbringing of new human lives. (Cardinal Ratzinger, CDF)
Reading the CDF document on homosexual unions. 2. The Church's teaching on marriage and on the complementarity of the sexes reiterates a truth that is evident to right reason and recognized as such by all the major cultures of the world. Marriage is not just any relationship between human beings. It was established by the Creator with its own nature, essential properties and purpose.(3) No ideology can erase from the human spirit the certainty that marriage exists solely between a man and a woman, who by mutual personal gift, proper and exclusive to themselves, tend toward the communion of their persons. In this way, they mutually perfect each other, in order to cooperate with God in the procreation and upbringing of new human lives. (Cardinal Ratzinger, CDF)
