Pope to Families: Be Brave and Open to Life.
Today's society requires the witness of Christian families to combat "the spread of secularization, which leads to exclusion of God from life and to increasing family breakdown." The Pope said this in his homily during Mass at the hippodrome in Zagreb in front of more than 400 thousand faithful. Many were families and young people who were attending the first National Day of Catholic families in Croatia. Today, the Pope continued, what is cultivated as an ideal is "the well-being of the individual through the consumption of material goods and ephemeral experiences, neglecting the quality of relationships with people and the deepest human values." It reduces love to sentimental emotion, he said, withou ...