How many "Hail Mary's" will this cost me?

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Pope Benedict XVI castigated popular culture for promoting sexual immorality Friday as he canonized Brazil’s first native-born saint before hundreds of thousands of faithful and a sea of flags in the world’s largest Roman Catholic nation. Holding up Friar Antonio de Sant’Anna Galvao as a model of rectitude and humility “in an age so full of hedonism,” Benedict said the world needs clear souls and pure minds, adding: “It is necessary to oppose those elements of the media that ridicule the sanctity of marriage and virginity before marriage.” (taken from article found: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18611180/

Yet, Catholic Charities advocates the selling of another human being. Go figure Church Laws. "What God put together, let no man put asunder". Does the umbilical chord count, or is that not considered solid evidence of God's plan of joining two people together?

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contradiction in terms

Here's one for you:  if the Catholic Church admonishes divorce and homosexuality, how does it explain "Honor thy mother and father" to the adopted child?

Which mother and father is the adopted child supposed to honor most?