In an interview published a few days ago in the Spanish magazine Mundo Cristiano, Cardinal Péter Erdő points out how "humanity today lives under enormous pressure from institutions. Our life is regulated from beginning to end, in great detail, and the possibilities of control are virtually limitless. Naturally, it is clear that, when you are under pressure, you look for a way out and try to avoid the restriction of any institutional form. In this sense, many prefer to abandon all institutional forms.

If marriage and family are interpreted as another form of control, then it is normal that many renounce."

Therefore, in order to manifest the human face of marriage, its beauty, its inherent ability to liberate rather than oppress, the Cardinal proposes strengthening the community of families within the Church, as a true "diakonia of the family for the family. There are many—he observes—who get married in the Church, but without really belonging to the community of the faithful. They have perhaps not even reflected on the question of their personal faith. However, if they come in contact with a community of families and start to build a friendship, already in the course of the preparation for marriage, through pre-marriage courses, then even if their faith does not become much stronger, the friendship with these families will remain. And, if the friendship remains, there is hope that they will later come to discover the Catholic sacramental identity of their marriage."