Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
Stephan: I think this is not for North American or European consumption. It is aimed at Africa and South America, where the Church is growing, and where most of the population knows nothing about the child abuse sex scandal, that has afflicted tens of thousands of children. Personally I can no longer make the leap between the message and the reality, the chasm is too great, so it just sounds overwrought and absurd.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI on Monday warned that liberal family values were threatening the future of humanity, in a veiled reference to homosexual marriage and adoptions by gay couples.
‘Policies which undermine the family threaten human dignity and the future of humanity itself,