A coalition of royals, prelates and Catholic activists has appealed to Pope Francis asking him to hold the line on Church teaching regarding the family.
According to a Breitbart report, their letter to the Pope focuses on the synod on the family in October.
It expresses the signatories’ “fears and hopes regarding the future of the family”.
Those who signed include princes and princesses, dukes and duchesses, counts and countesses, barons and baronesses, descendants of storied European royal families and one exiled African king.
Their numbers include Kigeli V, exiled King of Rawanda, the heads of the Imperial House of Portugal and Brazil, Prince Armand de Merode of Belgium, Duke and Duchess Antonello Del Balzo di Presenzano of Italy, Princess Monika of Lowenstein-Werthheim-Rosenberg, Baron Rudolf Pfyffer von Altishofen of France and many others.
The letter says: “Our fears arise from witnessing a decades-long sexual revolution promoted by an alliance of powerful organisations, political forces and the mass media that consistently work against the very existence of the family as the basic unit of society.”
The signers trace the ongoing sexual revolution to the May 1968 “Sorbonne Revolution” in France and “morality opposed to both divine and natural law”.
The letter “notes with anguish that, for millions of faithful Catholics, the beacon seems to have dimmed in the face of the onslaught of lifestyles spread by anti-Christian lobbies”.
Specifically, the signers believe “a breach has been opened within the Church that would accept adultery–by permitting divorced and then civilly remarried Catholics to receive Holy Communion–and would virtually accept even homosexual unions”.
The signers ask the Pope to clarify Church teaching ahead of the synod.
Among the signatories is American Cardinal Raymond Burke and English novelist, historian and biographer Piers Paul Read.
More than 100,000 people have added their signatures to the letter, using an online device, according to Breitbart.
Sources
- Breitbart
- Filial Appeal
- Image: The Guardian
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