Lay Catholics urge change in church teaching on contraception
By: Patsy McGarry
Call for significant lay involvement at Synod on the Family in Rome. The Association of Catholics in Ireland said full membership of the church should be extended to those in second relationships.
A group of lay Catholics has called for the Church to
revise its teaching on contraception and access to the sacraments for
those in second relationships.
The Association of Catholics in Ireland (ACI), which is committed to reform in the Irish Catholic Church in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council, has also called for significant lay involved at the Synod on the Family which is to take place in Rome next October.
At a recent meeting with the Archbishop of Dublin
Diarmuid Martin the ACI discussed what it described as “a shared
acknowledgement of the changing circumstances of family life, to which
the result of the marriage equality referendum adds a further
dimension”.
The ACI also met Archbishop Martin
prior to the extraordinary synod on the family in Rome last October. At
the more recent meeting they discussed with him the need for a review
of the marriage annulment procedure, marriage breakdown and second
relationships and access to the sacraments for those in second
relationships, pastoral care for LGBT people, their parents and families
and the need for the teaching on birth control in Humanae Vitae to be
revised.
Also discussed was “ the pressing need to engage in
concrete and practical dialogue with those disenfranchised from the
institutional church and in particular those young people raised in the
church but no longer active in it”.
ACI representatives suggested there be an all-Ireland
assembly of the church to address concerns such as these and Archbishop
Martin offered his encouragement to those involved in finding remedies
at grassroots level. He said there was a need to find different ways of
being church today.
An ACI submission for the second synod on the family
in Rome, which had been sent to Archbishop Martin, had been forwarded to
the Vatican, he said.
Among its recommendation is that priests who left the
church to marry should be invited back and that women and married
couples should train priests for ministry of marriage and the family.
It also called on the church to recognise and support
co-habiting couples to help them move towards permanent commitment and
said that there should be no exclusion from the sacraments for those in
mixed marriages or second relationships. “Communion should not be used
as a reward or punishment,” it said and that full membership of the
church should be extended to those in second relationships.
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