Law and religion round-up – 19th February

“Church law is therefore intimately connected to the life of the Church, as one of her necessary aspects, which is justice in conserving and transmitting the goods of salvation.”

Vatican News reports that when greeting students in a course organized by the Roman Rota, Pope Francis recalled the relationship between the Church’s evangelizing mission and Church law.

Church, state and same-sex marriage

In the course of his presidential address on the first day of the Anglican Consultative Council in Ghana, the Archbishop of Canterbury said that he had been under political pressure over the issue of same-sex marriage:

“In the last few weeks, as part of our discussions about sexuality and the rules around sexuality in the Church of England, I talked of our interdependence with all Christians, not just Anglicans, particularly those in the Global South with other faith majorities. As a result, I was summoned twice to Parliament and threatened with parliamentary action to force same-sex marriage on us, called in England ‘equal marriage’.”

No comment.

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