Dublin: Communicating the Family through Families

“The World Meeting will seek to communicate and distil for our times the beautiful and prophetic vision of God’s plan for marriage and the family” because “we believe that the Church’s proclamation of the family is Good News for society and the world”.

This was said by the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, H. E. Msgr. Eamon Martin, in the address he delivered a few days ago during the Seminar on Church communication offices on “Dialogue, Respect & Freedom of Expression in the public arena” at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross.

“Communicating the family,” founded on a loving relationship between a man and a woman which is open to the gift of children who are the fruit of that union, “can appear increasingly counter-cultural in many parts of the world, including Ireland,” said Archbishop Martin, adding that “vision of the family is best communicated by families” who are not” simply the object of ministry and evangelisation, but it is a powerful agent of evangelisation.”