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Benedict XVI addressed the issue of fear of couples to join forever and criticized the new legal ways "to relativize marriage" and make "one who renounces a final union also obtained a legally valid."

The concern of the pontiff focused on "new form of national or even eliminated the difference between the sexes" and makes "is like joining a man and a woman two people of the same sex."

"With this dire theories tacitly confirmed that eliminate the characteristics of masculinity and femininity of the human being," said Pope, who criticized "is the intellect of the person who decides what to be, and neglecting his body and the biological area .

Given this, Benedict XVI claimed the right of the Catholic Church to a "public input" to "defend the man as a creature composed of body and soul, in God's image."

"The trip to Valencia became for me on a journey in search of what it means to be a person," said the Pontiff, who recalled that trip his meeting with families, who told him the problem that in Europe and almost no one wants to have children. "

Therefore, thanked the efforts of all families with children and accept "the social and financial problems that this entails, as well as face the difficult road of education and the standards that must be transmitted.

EFE "22/12/2006