\u201cHumanae Vitae,<\/span>\u201d released that same year by Pope Paul VI. The text, entitled \u201cRule for Spouses,\u201d was never made public outside the Archdiocese of Krakow, but was recently discovered by a student from the John Paul II Institute for Life and Family in Rome.<\/p>\nThe booklet will be officially presented on April 24, but on Thursday Il Messagero<\/i> published a full version in Italian, as well as Wojtyla\u2019s introduction to the Rule on its website (in Italian).<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the future Polish Pope\u2019s observation,\u201d Il Messagero<\/span> writes, \u201cthere is a prophetic concern for the crisis of values that affects the destiny of Western civilization and its models.\u201d<\/p>\nIn his introduction, Wojtyla wrote that \u201cthe present Rule sprouts from a series of pastoral experiences with some married couples and, at the same time, from the marriage experience of couples themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Rule, he wrote, \u201cis born simultaneously with the publication of the encyclical Humanae Vitae<\/span>, which proposes to spouses and their pastors the Gospel\u2019s demand for authentically Christian marriages.\u201d<\/p>\nThe future Pope also suggested that groups of spouses who apply the Rule can take the name \u201cHumanae Vitae.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cThe Rule is aimed at married couples in their entirety and not to spouses as individuals. It is important, indeed, that it is adopted and put in practice by the couple, not solely the husbands or wives without the commitment of their spouses.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>In its Thursday printed edition, the Italian daily