Mexico City, Mexico, Feb 17, 2010 / 17:01 pm
In his Sunday homily, Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera recalled Mexico City's recent legalization of same-sex marriage and spoke on the importance of children being raised by both a mother and a father.
Speaking to the congregation, the cardinal recalled that Pope Benedict XVI has emphasized that children need to have a father and a mother.
“Unfortunately,” the cardinal said, “thousands of children in the world cannot have both a father and a mother. However, the greatest assistance children can be given is precisely that of a family founded upon the marriage between a man and a woman.”
“Thousands of children are not able to enjoy this right, and to deny them of it through the law is an aberration, it is foolishness. These aren’t my words, they are the Pope’s,” the cardinal explained.