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Mercedes de la Torre
ROME, Monday, February 16, 2009 (ZENIT.org) .- According to the Pontifical Household preacher, Christians today should seek to follow the example of their early predecessors to change society with his own testimony, rather than concentrate on changing the laws.
In this interview with ZENIT Father Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap, illustrates the challenges facing the Christian families.
One of the main problems of the family of our times - as you say - is the lack of love. What solutions offer us the Holy Scriptures for families afflicted by the problems of today?
Father Cantalamessa: Marriage comes from humility, by an act of humility. In it, each recognizes its dependence on the needs of others. Without humility, the marriage can not stay alive and healthy. Pride is the enemy No A marriage and love itself.
I believe that today, more than defend the Christian marriage in society and culture, we should try to improve the quality Christian family and work for Christian families are truly a place where the initial plan of God is realized, or that man and woman in the couple live a love that will lead them to desire the eternal and infinite.
During the conference, the World Meeting of Families in Mexico, she has argued that Christians should engage in the world with more facts than by words, as it was in the early centuries of the Church. We can then give those elements that we find in the biblical message and to help us again bear witness to the Gospel of life and family?
Father Cantalamessa: I said - and I am convinced - that the early Christians, especially in the first three centuries, have managed to change the laws of the state with their behavior. Today we can not pretend to do the opposite, that change the behavior through the laws of the State. As citizens we must do everything possible to ensure that the state adopt good laws, good, that they are not contrary to life, but this is not enough. It is not enough because in a pluralistic society like today, Christians in some countries already represent a minority and therefore we are closer to a situation similar to that of the first centuries, rather than that of the Middle Ages, when Christians do not were defended by the state but from their lives and their testimony.
What is the current process of deconstruction of the family and how this is opposed to God's plan?
Father Cantalamessa: We are in extreme situations. It's like if you wanted to reinvent the man, woman, marriage ... results with "un-human." For example, the proposed abolition of the sexes, in which there is no defined sexual identity, but where anyone can build his life according to your desire for masculinity, femininity, or something more variable. This is unacceptable and goes against human nature. The deconstruction
proposal would abolish motherhood, because sees it as slavery. The woman is enslaved by motherhood and this has been found a way to give birth to children in another way, in a more artificial. These prospects are very dangerous, "un-human."
I have great confidence in the people's common sense and instinct: the desire of the opposite sex that God has instilled in the person, and the desire for parenthood, which are values \u200b\u200bthat God has placed in the human heart.
But I believe that these proposals could create much damage, as it was for Marxism. Marxism has been recognized as a great evil to society, which has made many victims. Similarly, this revolution - the revolution like that - before it is recognized as "un-human, have time to get massive damage.
