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DISCUSSION PAPER FOR PARISHES FOLLOWING THE LENT 2012 PASTORAL LETTER ON FUTURE PLANNING.
Downloadable: Discussion Document following
Lent 2012 Pastoral Letter
PASTORAL LETTER 5th SUNDAY OF LENT
24-25 MARCH 2012
MISSION AND THE WAY FORWARD
Wherever I am, my servant will be there too.
Pastoral Letter on Marriage from the
Bishops of England and Wales on Marriage.
At Masses this weekend, (10th/11th March 2012) we receive a Letter from Archbishops
Vincent Nichols and Peter Smith on behalf of the Bishops’ Conference of England and
Wales.
It is a statement of our Catholic faith about marriage and issued in the light
of the forthcoming consultation by the Government on changing the legal definition
of marriage. In the light of this letter, you are asked to consider signing the Coalition
for Marriage’s online petition which can be found at www.C4M.org.uk. It reads:
“I support the legal definition of marriage which is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others. I oppose any attempt to redefine it.”
The Archbishops also say that after Easter there will be a more detailed leaflet on the Government’s consultation itself, for distribution in parishes, to assist Catholics in making their own response to the consultation.