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The author is a synthesis of Benedict XVI’s teaching of marital love and his care for its proper development. The Pope has stressed many times that love is the greatest gift from God. Unfortunately, today the world rejects the biblical image of love. Marital love is threatened by secularism promoting relativism, divorces, homosexual relationships, contraception, abortion, pornography and prostitution. Today’s liberal understanding of love is reduced to the sphere of eros and is deprived of its spiritual dimension. The Pope calls marital love the way of holiness that leads to a full and integral human and Christian development. It is the way of mutual care, the way of the sacraments and prayer and the way of work understood as a profession and involvement in domestic af airs .