Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region - 6 to 27 October

Amazonia: New Paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology

PT IT EN ES FR
Pan-Amazon Synod - The Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon » News » Cardinal Barreto: reducing the synod to a debate on ordaining married men of "proven virtue" distracts from "the socio-environmental problems of the Amazonian region"

Cardinal Barreto: reducing the synod to a debate on ordaining married men of "proven virtue" distracts from "the socio-environmental problems of the Amazonian region"

Print Mail Pdf

cardenal barreto sobre la amazonia

Amazon synod to focus on climate change, not married priests, Peruvian cardinal says

VATICAN CITY – The issue of married priests is something for the universal Catholic Church to discuss and is not the focus of the upcoming Synod of Bishops for the Amazon, said Peruvian Cardinal Pedro Barreto Jimeno of Huancayo.

Cardinal Barreto told Catholic News Service Feb. 26 that reducing the synod to a debate on ordaining married men of "proven virtue" – the so-called "viri probati" – distracts from "the socio-environmental problems of the Amazonian region." (...)

Source: CNS 27/02/2019