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ROME , January 14, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Children are being used as bargaining chips in a global struggle between two radically opposed theories of human nature, a leading Catholic bioethicist said this weekend in the Vatican’s newspaper L’Osservatore Romano . Adriano Pessina, director of bioethics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart , wrote in response to a court ruling on Friday that concerns over harms to children raised in homosexual partnerships are based on “mere prejudice”. “Not only for biological reasons,” Pessina wrote, “the monogamous family is the ideal place where you must learn the meaning of human relationships.” The social crisis building over the broad acceptance of homosexuality is related to the fact that “people with a homosexual orientation want to build a pair bond more and more similar to the family, claiming a right to adopt children.” But there is no such right, “even for heterosexual couples,” he said. “Children are not objects or in...

ROME , November 12, 2012  – In an unusually strongly worded statement on Vatican Radio ’s website, Fr. Federico Lombardi , the head of the Vatican’s press office, has vowed that the Church “will not give up its defence of marriage” despite recent setbacks. Lombardi’s comments followed a  front-page editorial  in the Vatican’s newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano , which appeared the same day and decried the growth of “politically correct ideologies invading every culture of the world,” backed by organizations like the UN. The paper called for “courage” from Catholics in fighting those ideologies. The Church, said the editorial, “is the only institution to point out that while it is certainly unfair to persecute homosexuals, to oppose the marriage between persons of the same sex is not an offensive act, but a point of view that must be respected.” “And so is opposition to abortion,” it added. “This is not an attack on human rights, but the defense of a social struc...