Pope Francis family-friendly policies - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 02 May 2022 07:20:51 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Pope Francis family-friendly policies - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Pope Francis: All countries should promote family-friendly policies https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/05/02/pope-francis-all-countries-should-promote-family-friendly-policies/ Mon, 02 May 2022 07:51:32 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=146331 Pope Francis on Friday urged all countries to promote family-friendly policies. In an address to members of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences on April 29, the pope insisted that it was possible to create "a family-friendly society" despite major cultural and economic obstacles. "Family-friendly social, economic, and cultural policies need to be promoted in Read more

Pope Francis: All countries should promote family-friendly policies... Read more]]> Pope Francis on Friday urged all countries to promote family-friendly policies.

In an address to members of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences on April 29, the pope insisted that it was possible to create "a family-friendly society" despite major cultural and economic obstacles.

"Family-friendly social, economic, and cultural policies need to be promoted in all countries," he said.

"These include, for example, policies that make it possible to harmonise family and work; fiscal policies that recognise family burdens and support the educational functions of families by adopting appropriate instruments of fiscal equity; policies that welcome life; and social, psychological, and health services centred on support for couple and parental relationships."

He added: "A ‘family-friendly' society is possible. Because society is born and evolves with the family. Not everything is attributable to a contract, nor can everything be imposed by command."

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