The Culture of Temporariness in Pope Francis’ Teaching on Marriage and Family
The Culture of Temporariness in Pope Francis’ Teaching on Marriage and Family

Summary/Abstract: What Pope Francis describes as “the culture of temporariness” are all the changes taking placein communities and the broad anthropological and cultural context of the Western world. According tothe pope, they include new ways of creating and maintaining relations, zapping, consumerism, individual-ism, the culture of rejection, unemployment, and NEET generation. In search for the Church’s responseto secularization, the authors decided to explore Pope Francis’ instructions addressed to young peopleconcerning marital and family life in the era of the current culture of temporariness. This is the majorresearch objective of the article. To achieve it, using the method of literature review covering the topic,the authors first present the manifestations of the culture of temporariness among young people. Next,the consequences of the culture of temporariness in catechesis for marriages and families are indicated.In the last part of the paper, Pope Francis’s instructions for young people regarding the threats of the cul-ture of temporariness in their lives and activities of marriages and families are elaborated on.

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