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Benedict XVI: Spouses create new humanity. Reaching out to couples who face infertility Benedict XVI has reminded them that there vocation to marriage no less because of this condition. In his address …More
Benedict XVI: Spouses create new humanity.

Reaching out to couples who face infertility Benedict XVI has reminded them that there vocation to marriage no less because of this condition. In his address to the Pontifical Academy for Life gathered in Plenary Assembly on the issue of infertility, Benedict XVI noted that spouses, by their very vocation of baptism and marriage, are called to cooperate with God in the creation of a 'new humanity. The vocation to love, in fact, is a vocation to the gift of self and this is a possibility that no organic condition can prevent. The human and Christian dignity of procreation, consists not in a "product", but in its connection with the conjugal act, an expression of love of the spouses, their union which i ...