教宗良十四世开启梵蒂冈家庭会议：约150位主教与会一周，再婚与LGBT议题料被触及
梵蒂冈城10月7日——据路透社报道，教宗良十四世10月7日开启一场为期一周的梵蒂冈会议，约150位来自世界各地的主教与会，讨论天主教会的家庭生活教导。这是教宗良十四世上任以来规模最大的一次教会领袖聚会，预计将触及再婚天主教徒与LGBT成员待遇等争议议题，尽管这些议题并不在正式议程上。
与会者为各国主教团主席，来自115多个国家，其中包括两名来自中国的主教。此次会议是为纪念教宗方济各2016年宗座劝谕《爱的喜乐》（Amoris Laetitia）发表十周年而召开。该文件敦促教会对离婚再婚等「不完美」信徒少些严苛、多些慈悲，并曾以脚注形式为个别再婚者领受圣事留下空间，但从未制定全球统一政策。按现行教导，再婚信徒除非与新伴侣不行夫妻生活，否则不得领圣体。
教宗在开幕致辞中请求上帝赐予与会者「聆听彼此的自由、辨认其工作的智慧、以及跟随引领的勇气」，并表示教会必须「在有限、创伤与表面失败的处境中也能认出恩典的工作」，但他没有具体提及再婚议题。会议将持续至10月14日。
同日，教宗在圣伯多禄广场的公开接见中继续梵蒂冈第二届大公会议文献讲授，强调基督徒「不能接受对弱者的压迫与不公」，并提醒「淡化基督信仰的要求并不会使它更有吸引力」。信息来源：路透社10月7日报道；《国家天主教纪事报》同日公开接见报道。本篇为信仰新闻，仅进信仰频道。
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Pope Leo Opens Week-Long Vatican Meeting on Family Life; Remarriage and LGBT Questions Expected to Surface
VATICAN CITY, Oct. 7 — Pope Leo XIV on Oct. 7 opened a week-long meeting at the Vatican with some 150 bishops from around the world to discuss the Church's teachings on family life — his biggest gathering of Church leaders so far — according to Reuters. The assembly, running through Oct. 14, is expected to touch on contested topics such as the Church's treatment of LGBT members and of Catholics who have divorced and remarried, although those issues are not formally on the agenda.
The participants are presidents of the world's bishops conferences, from more than 115 countries, including two from China. Leo called the assembly to mark the 10th anniversary of Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love), the 2016 document by his predecessor Pope Francis, which urged the Church to be less strict and more compassionate toward 'imperfect' Catholics such as the divorced and remarried. Under current teaching, remarried Catholics cannot receive communion unless they abstain from sex with their new partner; Francis appeared to open a door in a footnote but never laid out a clear universal policy.
Leo asked that God would 'give us the freedom to listen to one another, the wisdom to recognise his work among his people, and the courage to follow where he leads us,' and said the Church must recognise the work of grace even in situations marked by limits, wounds and apparent failure, without specifically naming the remarriage question.
At the same day's general audience in St. Peter's Square, the pope continued his catechesis on the documents of the Second Vatican Council, saying Christians cannot accept the oppression of the weak and the poor, and that watering down Christianity's demands will not make it more attractive, according to the National Catholic Register. Source: Reuters, Oct. 7; National Catholic Register, Oct. 7. Faith news, carried in the Faith channel only.
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