The Church is a factor of social stability. We live in a word where the social sets of society interact dynamically with each other. The Church being one of them acts like a shock absorber¹ to stabilize this universe and to be sometimes a factor of social evolution and of change.    A present example is the important role of the Church in stabilizing the social structures, particularly those related to the stability of the family nucleus that has been a source of human progress. In the Occidental social world where this nucleus tends to shrink today, the Church speaks without ambiguity for its preservation.    In Haiti, during the year 1990, I was attending a dominical service inside an adventist church. During his sermon, the pastor stressed the importance of the traditional family values, in particular those which called for the wife to be the docile servant of her husband and of her family.


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¹  However, the Church has not always acted like a "shock absorber" between human groups. Indeed, in history, there have been many instances when churches' rivalries have created social disruption