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Vatican conference explores new ways to communicate about marriage

Gathering brings together experts from a diverse range of religions
Vatican conference explores new ways to communicate about marriage

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Published: November 17, 2014 07:19 AM GMT
Updated: November 16, 2014 07:19 PM GMT

Following the dramatic and media-hyped Extraordinary Synod last month, the Vatican is hosting a colloquium seeking to find “new and creative language to speak to people where they are”.

This is according to Helen Alvaré, professor of law at George Mason University, and communications liaison for the Humanum Colloquium, which will run from November 17­19 at the Vatican.

The gathering is sponsored by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in collaboration with the Pontifical Council for the Family, the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, and the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity.

The aim of the conference, Alvaré said, is “to assist the entire project of the man and the woman in marriage by helping [to promote] a greater understanding of what this relationship is as a human institution” and to offer support for those “who hope for marriage, but sometimes despair, and for people who are struggling with it if they have it”.

The gathering brings together experts from around the world and diverse religious traditions, including Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Jain, Buddhist, Sikh, Muslim, and so on.

Despite these religious and cultural differences, Alvaré said, the themes linking the presentation on marriage are “so incredibly common that really do get at the reality of the relationship between a man and a woman as a natural human institution”.

 

Full Story: A new love language: Post synod conference seeks ways to communicate truth of marriage

Source:Catholic News Agency

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