Civil Catholic on gestation for others, caring for children is not enough – News

“It is not enough that the child finds an environment that takes care of him, but it is important that the two reference people are also those through whom he is in relationship with his own origin. For this reason the various forms of ‘proxy’ gestation ‘ do not correspond to the deepest meaning of generation, well expressed by the term ‘procreation‘”. La Civiltà Cattolica writes this in an essay dedicated to the various forms of procreation outside the couple. “The child thus risks being perceived and understood not so much as the fruit of the pact of love, communion and promise of a man and a woman, but rather as the result of a (re)productive act and therefore manageable as such” , comments the Jesuit magazine.


In the essay, signed by Father Carlo Casalone, it is admitted that “it is true that these conditions can be lacking in the couple’s relationships, for the most diverse reasons; but this does not take away the strength of the guiding criteria for the protection of every human being, nor is it legitimate to institutionalize the deprivation, as happens in a planned way, first of all of the relationship between mother and child, in surrogate motherhood. It is not comparable – Civiltà Cattolica points out, recalling the position of Pope Francis who has expressed his opposition to these on several occasions. forms of parenting – to situations in which involuntary dynamics or fortuitous events produce traumas and separations, in which the need arises to invent new forms of hospitality and care, which preserve as much as possible family bonds capable of protecting the balanced growth of children , starting from their needs. In this way the greatest good will be promoted for them, who need stability and unity in the demanding task of personal and social maturation”.


For the Jesuit newspaper, in fact, “the interaction of gestation cannot be reduced to just a biological process, but is also a first bond of care that is part of the human meaning of generation, which creates an unrepeatable and dynamic uniqueness”.