Family

Charles Dickens' last novel, Our mutual friend, combines dark situations and characters with luminous ones that radiate kindness and tenderness.

The need to help, love and accompany young people and families was highlighted last week in a course on Education of affectivity held at the University of Navarra. The breakdown of six out of ten marriages in Spain today generates many real emotional wounds.

Javier Rodriguez, General Director of the Family Forum, has talked to Omnes about a comprehensive family law and a State Pact for Motherhood and Childbirth, regarding the recent words of Pope Francis at an event of family associations attended by President Mario Draghi.

Bleak House, Dickens' novel, is a good example of how in married life you have to "learn to lose": to give in, to forgive, to give your all, even if it is not what "sells" in the market. 

Conjugal friendship constitutes a specific vocation, a gift and a task to be built. It requires effort, learning and patience, to which is added the grace of the Holy Spirit. In literature, this story and drama of love is reflected in the great novel "Jane Eyre".