text: At this event the pope apparently said, “the Bible teaches God created man and woman in his image, thus it’s when the two become one that his image is reflected.” (via CRUX)
  
  Whoa there. Maleness and femaleness are not part of God's being and males and females equally image God, whether they are single or coupled. You don't image God more successfully by getting married. If that were the case, then marriage would be a spiritual duty and not a choice. Second, two become one through the one flesh of each child—each child who, individually, images God.
  
  The Church would be better served thinking about how to make everyone's marriage better—more loving, more supportive, more faithful, more “outward sign” to the community than pilgrimage to Kleinfeld's and The Pottery Barn—than pointing a finger at the growing population of never-marrieds or gender theory. Neither is the cause of anyone's marriage breakdown.