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(Sinag-Tala, 1977; Position Papers, no. 45, 1977)

New York, Nov. 1995: to the National Federation of Catholic Physicians of the U.S., on the ocasion of the Thomas Linacre Award (published in Osservatore Romano, Dec 1995)

[The following homily was given during the closing Mass of the Second Panamerican Conference on Family and Education in Toronto, May 30, 1996. It is based on 1 Peter 2:9; Mark 10:46.]

            The family is both fruit and school of love. It begins in the self-donation of the spouses who chose each other as husband and wife. It comes into proper being as their marital union gives birth to their children. It is the natural setting in which the most important lesson of life - to love and grow in love - is learned.

School of love