Sunday, March 11, 2012
Roman Catholic Bishops’ letter on gay marriage
On the day it is reported that this Conservative/LibDem coalition Government are to oppose in the European Court of Human Rights the right of Christians to display the cross, the Roman Catholic hierarchy are mobilising their forces to oppose the Government’s ‘grotesque’ proposal to establish ‘gay marriage’. It is ‘madness’, as Scotland’s Cardinal Keith O’Brien, the UK’s most senior Roman Catholic, has publicly declaimed. “Can a word whose meaning has been clearly understood in every society throughout history suddenly be changed to mean something else?" he asked. Today, the following letter, signed by Archbishop Vincent Nichols and Archbishop Peter Smith, will be proclaimed from every Roman Catholic pulpit in England and Wales to around a million regular church-goers. It is only the second time in modern history that such a religio-political letter has been issued, read more
