“Catholic doctrine on marriage does not change and the church does not approve irregular unions”

2023-12-21 19:13:54

Monsignor Prosper Kontiebo, Metropolitan Archbishop of Ouagadougou, presented his Christmas 2023 wishes to the people of Burkina Faso. In his address, he encourages everyone to cultivate peace and love around them.

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Peace, love, joy, are the wishes that Monsignor Prosper Kontiebo, Metropolitan Archbishop of Ouagadougou, wished for Christmas 2023, this Thursday, December 21. “ I would therefore like to invite you to meditate on love as the fruit of the nativity, because in this difficult security situation, with many corollaries of the terrorist hydra and existential difficulties, we can often doubt this love of God for We. These kinds of questions can cross our minds. Does God love me? Does God love Burkina?

For the successor of Cardinal Philippe Ouédraogo, the suffering of the righteous is not a sign of abandonment by God because, he says, “ it is rather an opportunity, a springboard that can help him grow in his faith by becoming an artisan of love in his environment. ».

Monsignor Prosper Kontiebo in his message invited “to cultivate love, to respond to the love of God with the love of our brothers and sisters”. For him, everyone must become an artisan of love on a daily basis, in living environments, in families, in neighborhoods, in services and workplaces, despite the headwinds of hatred, contempt, discouragement that can blow to turn it off.

“Showing this love of God can be translated by forgiveness offered to a brother who has done us harm, or by reconciliation with a person to whom we have not spoken for a long time “, he explains. The Metropolitan Archbishop of Ouagadougou took advantage of his Christmas wish to share the Bishops’ note following the publication of the document “Fiducia supplicans” from the dicastery for the doctrine of the faith.

“We, your bishops and fathers of the church family of God which is in Burkina Faso and Niger, do not want to leave you in embarrassment, incomprehension and worry. Therefore we urge you to remain calm and firm in the faith. Catholic doctrine on marriage does not change and the church does not approve of irregular or same-sex unions..

However, all the pastoral questions posed by the implementation of the document “Fiducia supplicans” will be explored in depth and will be the subject of a detailed declaration from the Bishops of this conference. “. As a reminder, on December 18, 2023, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) published a document which gives the possibility of blessing couples in an irregular situation and same-sex couples.

Saly OUATTARA

Burkina 24

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