Women priests and sexuality: the Pope and Welby remain distant

VATICAN CITY - Francis and the primate of the Anglican Church Justin Welby met today in the Church of Saints Andrea and Gregorio al Celio where they recalled the meeting fifty years ago between Paul VI and the then Anglican primate, Michael Ramsey.

Together, and is the most important reason for the meeting, they formed a Joint Declaration that opened between the two Churches a new missionary season: "We can and we must be united in common cause to support and defend the dignity of all human beings". Essentially, Bergoglio and Welby not hide the differences between the two Churches, but somehow overshadow to make room for a new unity on a practical level, the pastoral level.

The barriers which divide the two Churches are "serious." But, they say, "we are not discouraged." "With confidence and joy in the Holy Spirit we trust that dialogue and mutual commitment to make deeper our understanding and help us to discern the will of Christ for his Church."

Disagreements concerning the ordination of women and the latest issues related to human sexuality. In essence, the Anglican Church since 1992 allows women priests, which can reach up to the bishop charged. While the clergy may marry. In addition, the plan of sexuality, is known the recent opening of the Archbishop of Canterbury at the wedding homosexuals. Two practices that the Catholic Church does not permit. And, because of which, the unit remains a mirage.

Yet the way of the same unit, in practice, you can.
"The world - they write - must see us bear witness in our work together, this common faith in Jesus. We can and must work together to protect and preserve our common home: living, teaching and acting so as to favor an early end to the environmental destruction, which offends the Creator and degrades its creatures, and generating of individual and social behavior patterns that promote sustainable and integral development for the good of all. we can, and must, be united in common cause to support and defend the dignity of all men. the human person is downgraded from personal and social sin. in a culture of indifference, of estrangement walls isolate us from others, from their struggles and their suffering, that many of our brothers and sisters in Christ today suffer ".