Christian marriage is that of a man
to a woman and the family is based on this, Pope Francis said as
he received in audience officials of the Tribunal of the Roman
Rota, on the occasion of the solemn inauguration of the Judicial
Year.
"In the Church and in the world there is a strong need to
rediscover the meaning and value of the conjugal union between a
man and a woman on which the family is founded", Francis told
the prelates, officials, lawyers and collaborators of the
Vatican divorce court.
"In fact," he added, "a certainly not secondary aspect of the
crisis that affects so many families is the practical ignorance,
both personal and collective, about marriage".
Francis said earlier this week that homosexuality was a sin but
not a crime.
The Catholic Church does not recognise gay marriage.
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