Interesting for belief, Fernández visits Tawadros – Vatican Information

Vatican Information

On Wednesday Could 22, the Coptic Pope Tawadros II acquired Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, chief government of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Religion, in Cairo and spoke to him concerning the affirmation Asking for confidence and the declaration of the Holy Coptic Synod on March 7 concerning “gay marriage”. The Coptic Orthodox Church itself introduced this in a press release.

Fernández welcomed Pope Francis to Tawadros, recalling the varied conferences held. The affirmation was on the coronary heart of the assembly Asking for confidence, revealed final December by the Vatican Dicastery. The next March, the Synod of the Coptic Church issued a press release reiterating the rejection of “so-called same-sex marriage”. Cardinal Fernández, after recalling that the 2 are in Asking for confidence and within the following doctrinal publication of the Dicastery, Infinite honorreiterates that marriage is barely the union between a person and a lady open to the unfold of life, confirmed that the Catholic Church can also be in opposition to same-sex marriage.

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Fernandez and Tawadros

The senior official of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Religion, the media of the Vatican, defined to His Holiness Tawadros II that the Catholic Church shares the doctrine of affirmation of March 7 and makes a optimistic analysis of its pastoral technique. Speaking about it Asking for confidence, Fernández clarified that – as Pope Francis mentioned atyour complete meeting of the Dicastery – the union between individuals shouldn’t be blessed. If they seem collectively, the persons are blessed, making the signal of the cross on every one and including a brief prayer. However this should occur in a brief, spontaneous method, with none ceremony, with out liturgical costume and with out exterior revelation that would confuse that blessing with a marriage. A very powerful factor, the prefect defined, is to make sure that this type of easy, spontaneous and pastoral blessings will also be given on the road, throughout pilgrimages, and that everybody can obtain them, regardless no matter state of affairs they discover themselves in. In truth, on this case – specified Fernández – it’s not a query of “sanctifying grace” however of these helps of the Holy Spirit which Catholics name “true graces”, and which push the sinner to in direction of conversion and maturity.

Through the dialog, Tawadros II additionally defined to Fernández thephilosophy the historic, cultural and social historical past of the individuals of Egypt, carefully linked to the Nile River all through its historical past. Throughout his go to to Cairo, the superior met with Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant patriarchs and bishops for points associated to the Dicastery.

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Prefect of the Doctrine of the Religion and the Coptic Orthodox patriarch