Catholic News Service
MILAN — As tens of thousands of families from all over the world gathered for the World Meeting of Families, Pope Benedict XVI urged them to use their Christian values and strengths to help bring peace, joy and solidarity to everyone in their lives.
“It is within a family that one experiences for the first time how the human person was not created to live closed up in himself, but in relationship with others,” the pope said as he appealed for continued help for those affected by two deadly earthquakes in northern Italy.