You may have seen the recent letter from more than 450 priests in support of the Church’s teaching on marriage.
We would like to invite you to sign the letter below, to be sent to the press in support of them, and to encourage others to sign it.
To sign, please leave your name and your diocese in the comments box below, or if you prefer email them to me or to one of the coordinators:
The Letter:
Dear Sir,
We, the undersigned, wish to endorse and support the letter signed by over 450 priests in the recent edition of the Catholic Herald.
As laity, we all know from our own family experiences, or those of our friends and neighbours, the harrowing trauma of divorce and separation, and we sympathise with all those in such situations.
It is precisely for that reason that we believe that the Church must continue to proclaim the truth about marriage, given us by Christ in the Gospels, with clarity and charity in a world that struggles to understand it.
For the sake of those in irregular unions, for the sake of those abandoned and living in accordance with the teachings of the Church, and above all for the sake of the next generation, it is essential that the Church continues to make it quite clear that sacramental marriage is indissoluble until death.
We pray, and expect, that our hierarchy will represent us, and the Church’s unwavering teaching, at the Synod this autumn.
Yours faithfully,
61 comments:
John Francis Burke
Diocese of Portsmouth
Matthew Hazell, Diocese of Hallam
I'll sign. Andrew Plasom-Scott (Lancaster)
Have signed it already elsewhere and would encourage all to do so!
Martin Macgregor
Hexham & Newcastle
Celia Parker
Hallam
Salford diocese
Diocese of East Anglia
Jonathan Marshall
Clifton diocese
Thanks all;
Unknown of East Anglia: unless Unknown is your name, I don't think I can count that as a signature.
Ben Whitworth
Diocese of Aberdeen
(St Ignotus of East Anglia is perhaps the least remembered of the companions of St Felix of Dunwich ...)
Jane Beaton
Diocese of Wrexham
Nicola Randall
Lancaster Diocese
Nicola Randall
Lancaster Diocese
I'll sign
Frank Ashcroft Plymouth (term time) and Leeds (school holidays)
Delighted to sign, great to have priests and laity endorsing the Church's teaching.Tina Hope,Birmingham.
Stephen Davis, Southwark
Stephen Davis, Southwark
Jim McPake Carlisle, Cumbria.
Michael Merrick
Diocese of Lancaster
Salford
Please add my signature
Martin Gardner
Diocese of Aberdeen
John H. Diocese of Westminster
Sonja Woodman
Arundel and Brighton
(Count me in)
Joe Smiles
Archdiocese of Birmingham
Thomas Bridge,
Diocese of Brentwood
Gerald Healy Liverpool Diocese
John Fitzgerald
Diosece of Salford
Robert Allen
Diocese of Clifton
DP O'Conchobhair Portsmouth
Marianne Smiles
Archdiocese of Birmingham
Marianne Smiles
Archdiocese of Birmingham.
Please add my signature:
David Edwards
Diocese of East Anglia
Annie Glasspool
Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle
Gaelle Hendrickx
Diocese of Westminster
Catherine Pattinson
Diocese of Salford
Christine Dumouchel
Diocese of Charleston (USA)
Drew Hall
Anglican Ordinariate
Felicity Howard
St Andrews and Edinburgh
Rebecca Short
Lancaster
Anne Grimer
St William of York, Reading
Signed,
Anthony Readings
Philip Campbell
Westminster
Philip Campbell
Westminster
Anne Howard
Diocese of Southwark
Anne Howard
Diocese of Southwark
Helen Casper
Diocese of Los Angeles
Helen Casper
Diocese of Los Angeles
Rhoslyn Thomas
Diocese of Southwark
Rachel Peck
Diocese of Lancaster
I'll sign
Agree
I thought I had already signed this but my name is not on the list so here goes again,
Mary C. Fagan.
Diocese of Leeds.
Elizabeth Wordley
Diocese of Menevia
Christopher Massey
Diocese of Lancaster
Pauline Purcell
Northampton Diocese.
Jean Purcell
Northampton Diocese.
Patrick Purcell
Northampton Diocese.
Joanne Purcell
Northampton
Mike Ryan
Archdiocese of Glasgow
Norman holland ,archdiocese of Liverpool ,recently we've had our church closed down ie st Edwards ,by the archbishop of Liverpool malcolm,
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