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January 2010: Bishops Praise NJ Senate Vote
November 2009: At their General Assembly, the Bishops previewed first video promoting and protecting marriage, entitled "Made for Each Other." Video and resources to be available Spring 2010. Also, Pastoral Letter on Marriage approved
Mosaic of Sts. Joachim and Anne, by Rev. Marko Rupnik
In Defense of Marriage
Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Matthew 19:4-6; cf. Genesis 2:23-24
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En defensa del matrimonio
'For this reason a man shall leave [his] father and [his] mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.' This is a great mystery, but I speak in reference to Christ and the church. Ephesians 5:31-32
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CNS photo/Paul Haring
The family … is the “cradle” of life and of every vocation. We are well aware that the family founded on marriage is the natural environment in which to bear and raise children and thereby guarantee the future of all of humanity. However, we also know that marriage is going through a deep crisis and today must face numerous challenges. It is consequently necessary to defend, help, safeguard and value it in its unrepeatable uniqueness. If this commitment is in the first place the duty of spouses, it is also a priority duty of the Church and of every public institution to support the family by means of pastoral and political initiatives that take into account the real needs of married couples, of the elderly and of the new generations.
Pope Benedict XVI, Angelus (February 4, 2007)
Marriage and the family are institutions that must be promoted and defended from every possible misrepresentation of their true nature, since whatever is injurious to them is injurious to society itself.
Pope Benedict XVI, Apostolic Exhortation Sacramentum caritatis (February 22, 2007)