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Amoris Laetitia: Asian Families and Digital Challenges
Cardinal Ferrão and Rosito discuss family resilience amid Asia's religious shifts and digital changes.
In brief
Cardinal Ferrão and Rosito discuss family resilience amid Asia's religious shifts and digital changes. Cardinal Ferrão highlights Asian families' role in faith transmission despite polarization, while Rosito emphasizes digital tools reshaping child-rearing and family-Church collaboration. Originally reported by…
Quick answers
- What Next for Families?
- Participants must discern how to learn and imagine new ways of being families and the Church.
- What is the key takeaway from Amoris Laetitia: Asian Families and Digital Challenges?
- Cardinal Ferrão highlights Asian families' role in faith transmission despite polarization, while Rosito emphasizes digital tools reshaping child-rearing and family-Church collaboration.
Family as God's Revelation
Families today are a challenging mosaic of diverse realities marked by joys, hopes, struggles and wounds.
“Families today are “a challenging mosaic of diverse realities, marked by joys, hopes, struggles and wounds. The family is not only a place to which the Church brings the Gospel. It is also a place from which the Gospel comes alive, from one generation to another, from one family to another, and from families to society.”
Cardinal Ferrão's Asian Experience
Cardinal Neri Ferrão, Metropolitan Archbishop of Goa and Daman, shared experiences of families in India and Asia.
“Christian families in many parts of India and Asia must also live amid growing religious polarization and hostility.”
Family Challenges in Asia
Families face economic insecurity, poverty, unemployment, and uncertainty about the future.
“Families were increasingly on the move, and many faced economic insecurity, poverty, unemployment, and uncertainty about the future.”
Family Beauty Amid Struggle
Families create positive spaces for joy and hope despite poverty and uncertainty.
“our families continue to create positive spaces for joy and hope.”
Listening to Families
Churches in India and Asia listened first to families, shaping pastoral approaches.
“the Churches in India and across Asia “listened first to families,” and that listening “shaped how we walk with them.””
Rosito on Digital Changes
Vincenzo Rosito highlighted digital technologies transforming child-rearing and family practices.
“Consider, for example, how the use of new digital technologies is transforming the daily habits of families and the way children are brought up.”
Family-Church Collaboration
Families and the Church learn together through shared practices and changes.
“The family and the Church, Prof. Rosito continued, “learn together through change.””
What Next for Families?
Participants must discern how to learn and imagine new ways of being families and the Church.
“What do we need, amidst the light and shadow of today, to learn and imagine new ways of being a family and new ways of being the Church?”
What matters most
Cardinal Ferrão highlights Asian families' role in faith transmission despite polarization, while Rosito emphasizes digital tools reshaping child-rearing and family-Church collaboration.
