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 us or to one of the
coordinators:
Mark Lambert (mark@landbtechnical.com) or
Andrew
Plasom-Scott (andrewplasom_scott@me.com)
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,
