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In these days when the Catholics in Brazil celebrate National Family Week – from 10 to August 16 – the Bishop of Jales, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Bishop Demetrius Valetini, said the family is under “general alert” and needs urgent help .
The bishop explained that the origin of this “deep crisis” is assigned to those who “have fun undermining traditional values, making the family a sounding board of their irreverence, fun for those who lack discernment, and to the delight of the audience that ensure easy access to television programs. “
According to Bishop Demetrius it’s time to realize that the ethical foundations of society are at stake. In this sense, the bishop is a warning: “We can no longer make the problems of families easy roadmaps in novels to uncommitted ethics and morality.”
“Enough to make the family a dupe of picturesque amusements and irresponsible. It’s time to assume the defense of the family, assuring it all the support she needs to resume the noble vocation of generating life and educator of the people, “the bishop defended.
For the month of October the Pope Francisco convened an Extraordinary Synod on the Family.
There is no doubt: He is sounding the general alarm over the Family. Traditionally regarded as a bastion of moral inexhaustible reserves, which could be invoked at times of greatest crisis of society, now the family that is taking on water, and needs urgent help.
Just check the tense atmosphere which is, for example, most of the classrooms. That in the sum of family problems brought by students, teachers find themselves crazy. The situation has exceeded the limits of normal. It is imperative to call to assist the family. And to make it become, again, a providential, safe and quiet space, as stronghold in which people learn to relate to balance, assimilating essential values such as mutual respect, solidarity and trust for sharing commitments and to guarantee security and healthy living.
So the family would again be a favorable environment for the growth of people, leading them to assume their identity unequivocally and without fear of facing reality.
If we ask for the origin of this deep crisis faced by the family today, there is no doubt that much of the responsibility should be placed on the account of those who delight in undermining traditional values, making the family a sounding their irreverence for fun those who lack discernment, and to the delight of the audience that guarantee easy to television programs.
Seeking a sociological explanation of the crisis faced by the family, Pope Francis found in the Aparecida document an aspect that deserves our attention.
Describing the situation in which we live, Aparecida says that we are not only a time of many changes, but a “change of epoch”. Therefore, it is a deeper crisis, not an episodic one.
He notes that in times like these it is more viable to abandon traditional values, in the naive hope that the new situation will be in charge of bringing the solutions as it was able to generalize the crisis.
In any case, even without taking into account all the reasons, the fact is that today the family is going through a time of deep crisis.
It’s time to give us account at stake the ethical foundations of our society. And that there’s more to the problems of families itineraries easy to novels with uncompromised ethics and morality.
Enough of making the family a plaything of picturesque amusements and irresponsibility. It’s time to assume the defense of the family, assuring her all the support she needs to resume the noble vocation of generating life and educating of the people. “