Pope Francis to open Vatican conference on traditional marriage

Catholic News Service ^ | Francis X. Rocca

[Gamecock]

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A month after closing a Synod of Bishops on the family stirred by controversy over divorce, same-sex unions and other nonmarital relationships, Pope Francis will open an interreligious conference dedicated to traditional marriage.

The Vatican-sponsored gathering, on the "Complementarity of Man and Woman," will take place Nov. 17-19 and feature more than 30 speakers representing 23 countries and various Christian churches, as well as Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Taoism and Sikhism.

The conference will aim to "examine and propose anew the beauty of the relationship between the man and the woman, in order to support and reinvigorate marriage and family life for the flourishing of human society," according to organizers.

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia and the Rev. Rick Warren, senior pastor of Saddleback Church in California, will be among the participants.

Other Americans at the conference will include Russell D. Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention; Henry B. Eyring, first counselor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; and Mercy Sister Prudence Allen, former chair of the philosophy department at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver, whom Pope Francis named to the International Theological Commission in September.

Other notable speakers will include Lord Jonathan Sacks, former chief rabbi of Great Britain, and Anglican Bishops N.T. Wright and Michael Nazir-Ali.

Pope Francis will address the conference and preside over its first morning session Nov. 17, following remarks by Cardinal Gerhard Muller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

The conference was an initiative of Cardinal Muller, who proposed it to Pope Francis in November 2013, according to Helen Alvare, a professor at George Mason University School of Law in Virginia, who is handling press relations for the event.

The conference is officially sponsored by the doctrinal congregation, and co-sponsored by the pontifical councils for Promoting Christian Unity, for Interreligious Dialogue and for the Family. The heads of all four curia offices are scheduled to address the assembly.

Topics of lectures and videos will include "The Cradle of Life and Love: A Mother and Father for the World's Children" and "The Sacramentality of Human Love According to St. John Paul II."

Given its timing and subject matter, the conference is likely to invite comparisons with the Oct. 5-19 synod on the family. Several conference participants have already commented publicly on the earlier event.

One of the synod's most discussed topics was a proposal by German Cardinal Walter Kasper to make it easier for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive Communion. Cardinal Muller was a leading opponent of that proposal.

Archbishop Chaput told an audience in New York Oct. 20 that he had been "very disturbed" by press reports of last month's synod, saying, "I think confusion is of the devil, and I think the public image that came across was of confusion," though he added: "I don't think that was the real thing there." The archbishop will play host to the September 2015 World Meeting of Families, which Pope Francis is widely expected to attend.

Rev. Warren was one of 48 Christian ministers and scholars who signed an open letter to Pope Francis and the synod fathers in September, urging the assembly to defend traditional marriage, among other ways, by supporting efforts to "restore legal provisions that protect marriage as a conjugal union of one man and one woman."

Moore, of the Southern Baptist Convention, wrote a blog post in response to the synod's controversial midterm report, which used remarkably conciliatory language toward people with ways of life contrary to Catholic teaching, including those in same-sex unions and other non-marital relationships.

Moore praised the document for suggesting that "we should not drive sinners away, but that we should receive them and nurture them toward Christ," but said that the "church is not itself, though, to be made up of unrepentant people."

[Buckeye McFrog]

Not inviting the Muslims I see. Interesting!

[Gamecock]

The Vatican-sponsored gathering, on the "Complementarity of Man and Woman," will take place Nov. 17-19 and feature more than 30 speakers representing 23 countries and various Christian churches, as well as Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Taoism and Sikhism.

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia and the Rev. Rick Warren, senior pastor of Saddleback Church in California, will be among the participants.

Other Americans at the conference will include Russell D. Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention; Henry B. Eyring, first counselor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; and Mercy Sister Prudence Allen, former chair of the philosophy department at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver, whom Pope Francis named to the International Theological Commission in September.

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[Gamecock]

**Not inviting the Muslims I see. Interesting!**

Read it again.

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[pepsi_junkie]

So after 2,000 years the church is finally going to establish a position on traditional marriage? Great news!

Wait, what? It's been a sacrament the whole time, and they've always supported it? Oh. So what's the point of this?

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Well, here's that the Muslims have to contribute:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3223049/posts

[painter]

Wait, what? It's been a sacrament the whole time, and they've always supported it? Oh. So what's the point of this?

I think the Church is doing this to make it CLEAR that the ONLY marriage is between a MAN and a WOMAN.

[pepsi_junkie]

I think the Church is doing this to make it CLEAR that the ONLY marriage is between a MAN and a WOMAN.

Prediction: Francis will be quoted saying something like "It is time to recognize that traditional marriage is about love and therefore any marriage between two people with loving hearts is a traditional marriage regardless of other factors."

There will be celebrations in San Fracisco, Rehobeth and Key West and a state holiday will be declared in Vermont.

Then a day later a Vatican spokesman will release an urgent statement saying "The Pope was misquoted and the translation was poor. What he really said was that the traditional teachings of the church still apply"

[Dr. Thorne]

So, Frank is inviting leaders from the false religions Mormonism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Taoism and Sikhism to take a position on what Almighty God has already clearly defined since He created Man. Utter idiocy. I wonder if Slick Rick will wear his Hawaiian shirt?

[GreensKeeperWillie]

Awesome. More ecumaniacism from the apostate pope.

[CynicalBear]

>>The Vatican-sponsored gathering, on the "Complementarity of Man and Woman," will take place Nov. 17-19 and feature more than 30 speakers representing 23 countries and various Christian churches, as well as Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Taoism and Sikhism.<<

2 John 1:9 Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting; 11 for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds.

[NKP_Vet]

“The Vatican-sponsored gathering, on the “Complementarity of Man and Woman,” will take place Nov. 17-19 and feature more than 30 speakers representing 23 countries and various Christian churches, as well as Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Taoism and Sikhism.

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia and the Rev. Rick Warren, senior pastor of Saddleback Church in California, will be among the participants.

Other Americans at the conference will include Russell D. Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention; Henry B. Eyring, first counselor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; and Mercy Sister Prudence Allen, former chair of the philosophy department at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver, whom Pope Francis named to the International Theologica”

Enough to make you throw up. Will they be be going up for Holy Communion? If not now, they will be before long. Catholic Doctrine means absolutely nothing to this current pope.

Francis is attacking Christ by attacking doctrine.

[GreensKeeperWillie]

Will they be be going up for Holy Communion?

He will probably invite them to concelebrate the Mass. Bunch of mooks stumbling around on the Altar of God. Like that nonsense we saw the other day in Baltimore. Sorry fellas, no rubrics for concelebration of the Novus Ordo but that never stops them.

[Mrs. Don-o]

The conference is on the complementarity of men and women. I personally find that highly relevant to the definition of marriage and I will follow the discussions with interest.

I think this complementarity is a part of Natural Law, and thus show up across civilizations, continents and centuries. And, of course, in both Judeo-Christian and non-Judeo-Christian cultures. I hope they publish the proceedings

[Gamecock]

Companion thread

[piusv]

And why would the Catholic Church need the help of false religions to do this?