Worship prefect slams priests on marriage teaching

The Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship has said he feels wounded at incomprehension by some priests of the Church’s teaching on marriage.

Cardinal Robert Sarah told French Catholic magazine “L’Homme Nouveau” he ascribed this to “the insufficiency of the formation of my confreres”.

“And insofar as I am responsible for the discipline of the sacraments in the whole Latin Church, I am bound in conscience to recall that Christ has re-established the Creator’s original plan of a monogamous, indissoluble marriage ordered to the good of the spouses, as also to the generation and education of children,” the Guinean cardinal said.

“He has also elevated marriage between baptised persons to the rank of a sacrament, signifying God’s covenant with his people, just like the Eucharist.”

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