Our dialogue has been made dynamic by the desire to remain faithful to the will expressed by Christ that his disciples should all be one" so that "the world may believe", and it is "by fidelity to Christ that we have committed ourselves to a dialogue based on the Gospel and on our ancient common traditions", but "now it seems that full and visible communion as the goal of our dialogue has taken a step backwards", said Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, in his address to the Lambeth Conference at Canterbury today. In his address, the complete text of which is published in today’s Osservatore Romano, the cardinal stressed, among other things, "two questions at the centre of the tensions within the Anglican Communion and its relations with the Catholic Church: the ordination of women and human sexuality". The teaching of the Catholic Church on human sexuality, "in particular on homosexuality", is "firmly based on the Old and New Testament", explained Kasper, so here what’s "at stake is fidelity to Holy Scripture and to the apostolic tradition". (to be continued)
