Priests urged to engage in pastoral reflection of the family
The President of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference (GCBC), Most Rev. Joseph Osei-Bonsu, has urged Diocesan Priests as part of their pastoral ministry to engage in a more careful pastoral reflection on the Family to let the right understanding of it influence whatever decision they took regarding the family.
He said the family could and did play a vital role in both the Church and Society but was today, undergoing “a real crisis characterized by urban economic pressures, financial burdens, marital infidelity, sexual promiscuity, the secular philosophy of relativism – all of which is putting the stability of society at risk.”
He said this in a Goodwill message at the opening of the 25th National and 13th Biennial Congress of the National Union of Ghana Diocesan Priests’ Association (NUGDPA) at the Archbishop Porter Girls’ Senior High School at Takoradi.
The five-day Congress attended by about 600 Diocesan Priests from all the Arch/Diocese and a Vicariate in Ghana including six Bishops was on the theme: Pastoral Challenges to the Family in the Context of the New Evangelization: The role of the Diocesan Priest.
The President of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference (GCBC), Most Rev. Joseph Osei-Bonsu, has urged Diocesan Priests as part of their pastoral ministry to engage in a more careful pastoral reflection on the Family to let the right understanding of it influence whatever decision they took regarding the family.
He said the family could and did play a vital role in both the Church and Society but was today, undergoing “a real crisis characterized by urban economic pressures, financial burdens, marital infidelity, sexual promiscuity, the secular philosophy of relativism – all of which is putting the stability of society at risk.”
He said this in a Goodwill message at the opening of the 25th National and 13th Biennial Congress of the National Union of Ghana Diocesan Priests’ Association (NUGDPA) at the Archbishop Porter Girls’ Senior High School at Takoradi.
The five-day Congress attended by about 600 Diocesan Priests from all the Arch/Diocese and a Vicariate in Ghana including six Bishops was on the theme: Pastoral Challenges to the Family in the Context of the New Evangelization: The role of the Diocesan Priest.