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Destruction of the Family an attempt to “Modify the Very Grammar of Life” Says Pope’s Vicar General
by Hilary White
ROME, April 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In his meditations for this year’s Stations of the Cross, the annual commemoration of the biblical events of Christ on the way to be crucified, Archbishop Angelo Comastri, the Pope’s Vicar General, asked, “What is it that today, in particular, strikes at Christ’s holy body?”
Comastri wrote for the stations this Good Friday and posted already to the Vatican’s website, “There is a move to reinvent mankind, to modify the very grammar of life as planned and willed by God.”
Comastri’s meditations are in line with a stream of thought of Pope Benedict who has been outspoken in his criticisms of the secularization of the modern world. “Surely God,” Comastri writes, “is deeply pained by the attack on the family. Today we seem to be witnessing a kind of anti-Genesis, a counter-plan, a diabolical pride aimed at eliminating the family.”
Just weeks before his elevation to the Papacy, Cardinal Ratzinger published his meditations for the Stations of the Cross for Good Friday. He wrote of the corruption and secularization of the Church. “How much filth there is in the Church, and even among those who, in the priesthood, ought to belong entirely to him!”
Ratzinger’s comment about the “filth” that has entered the Church through the priesthood, was understood to be a reference to the corruption of the priesthood by homosexuality, relativism and secularism, which have been the substance of his work since coming to Rome in 1981.
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