A Vatican cardinal told Europe’s synodal continental assembly yesterday that the biblical vision of man and woman created in the image of God should serve as a “precious beacon for our debates and discernments.” He said it as voices within the Church, including in Ireland, insist Catholic teaching on marriage and sexuality has to change and diverge from what Jesus taught.
Speaking on the third day of the week-long gathering in Prague, the outgoing prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, said that between God and the human person there is a resemblance that sets him apart from all other creatures on earth.
While this resemblance had been understood in spiritual terms, now the relational dimension is highlighted which recovers “the mediation of the body and its fundamental role in the life of the couple”.
He also warned against changing Church teaching on marriage.