Popular author and pastor Rick Warren is to speak today on the ‘Biblical meaning of marriage’ at the Pope’s Humanum conference in Rome.
The conference is titled ‘An International Interreligious Colloquium on The Complementarity of Man and Woman’. It is expected to clarify the Vatican’s stance on some of the issues that came out of the recent Synod on the Family, and will seek to find “new and creative language to speak to people where they are,” according to one of the organisers.
Helen Alvaré, communications liaison for the conference, told Catholic News Agency that it hopes to offer “a greater understanding” of the relationship between man and woman within marriage. It also aims to provide support for those “who hope for marriage, but sometimes despair, and for people who are struggling with it if they have it,” she added.
Warren, who wrote bestselling The Purpose Driven Life and pastors Saddleback church in California, has in the past repeatedly affirmed the traditional Christian teaching on marriage, and is expected do so today. He asked for prayer as he speaks…Read More
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