UNITED KINGDOM
Catholic Herald
by Madeleine Teahan posted Wednesday, 25 Mar 2015
The cardinal was responding to a letter signed by almost 500 priests
Priests should not conduct a debate about the October Family Synod through the press, Cardinal Nichols has said, following the publication of a letter signed by hundreds of priests, urging the synod to issue a “clear and firm proclamation” upholding Church teaching on marriage.
In the letter, signed by almost 500 priests and published in this week’s Catholic Herald, they write: “We wish, as Catholic priests, to re-state our unwavering fidelity to the traditional doctrines regarding marriage and the true meaning of human sexuality, founded on the Word of God and taught by the Church’s Magisterium for two millennia.”
In a statement, a spokesman for Cardinal Nichols said that the press was not the medium for conducting dialogue of this sort.
Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.