Fernand Portal
Fernand Portal ( Laroque , 14 August 1855 - Paris , 19 June 1926 ) was a Catholic priest Lazarist considered a pioneer in ecumenical dialogue for contemporary reconciliation between the churches they tried Anglican and Roman Catholic lay person in the company of Anglo-Catholic , Viscount Halifax Charles Lindley Wood.
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Biography
After studying at the seminary in Paris Fernand Portal is ordained priest of the Congregation of the Mission missionary Vincentians in 1880. His ambition was then to go on mission to China but his health would prevent that. After ten years of teaching at Tours , in Oran , in Lisbon , in Nice and Cahors , and hemoptysis force him to stay at Madeira. There, in 1890 he met a Lord Anglo-Catholic whose son was suffering from tuberculosis, Charles Lindley Wood , who had given the project to the approximation of Anglican and Roman. A lasting friendship now bind the two men through this ambition.
The Anglican ordination
Fernand Portal will work when his friend Lord Halifax to the idea of meeting of the churches and received the personal approval of Pope Leo XIII to make contacts with leaders of the Anglican Church. To provoke an encounter between Catholics and Anglicans he launched a debate on the validity of Anglican appeared to be a possible ground of understanding. Fernand Portal presents as an initiation to the theological debate a little booklet entitled The Anglican in December 1893 which meets an opus written by Anglican theologians under the leadership of Halifax.
The publication of these pamphlets are of great feedback and for the first time, the press echoed an ecumenical debate. The portal creates journal Anglo-Romaine to feed the dialogue by showing the French Catholic Church of England both in its everyday reality in his theology. Leo XIII then meets a pontifical commission to study more thoroughly Anglican orders, counting among its members persons who become actors in the crisis of modernism as Rafael Merry del Val , or Louis Duchesne. The decision that i is brutal, and the publication of the bubble Apostolicae Curae , 18 September 1896 , declared the ordinations conferred by the Anglican rite entirely void. The Anglican Archbishops meet officially on the bubble by Saepius officio , challenging observations papal text.
Roman Penalties
Among the immediate consequences of this position, the Revue Anglo-Romaine was stopped immediately and Portal to leave for the major seminary of Chalons-sur-Marne on the orders of his superior general. Recalled to Paris to lead the new University Seminary Saint Vincent de Paul. It makes the place a place of openness and exchange, not hesitating to invite Anglicans, Protestants or unbelievers. He founded a new journal, the Journal of Catholic churches, to publicize the work of his study group and has highly qualified staff. He also founded the Association of Women's Union , without vows and without suit individual whose vocation is to focus on children and the poor and he wants to be the messengers of the Unit by the Charity.
Disciple of John Henry Newman , a friend of Teilhard de Chardin and adviser to Georges Clemenceau , Mr. Portal is a man and a true network-pass wall The Malines Conversations After a brief exile, he returned to settle in Paris, and being unable to speak or teach, he maintains contacts and customizable home street Grenelle in Paris was the scene of meetings and discussions for students the Ecole Normale Superieure , priests and Protestant. He nonetheless pursued a priestly ministry he never gave up, concerned about the de-Christianization of the working classes, putting himself primarily to serve children. Despite the difficulties, Fernand Portal, supported by his friend Francois Verdier, became Superior General of the Vincentians, perseveres with his friend Halifax in the way they were drawn. Following a call by the Anglican churches all - especially the Orthodox - to create a union of churches following the conference in Lambeth , the climate becomes slightly more favorable to a resumption of dialogue. Both men face the Cardinal Belgian Dsir-Joseph Mercier with which they manage to develop from 1921 inter-church meetings, to be known as the Malines Conversations consist of strong exchange of views between members of the Anglican clergy with semi-tacit agreement of authorities on both sides. The meetings will be interrupted by the death of Cardinal Mercier in January 1926 followed a few months later by that of Fernand Portal. Although the encyclical Mortalium animosity ( 1928 ) hangs shortly after the company Ecumenical Catholic side, this new experiment is considered a capital milestones in the history of contemporary ecumenism and reconciliation that will follow will be largely beholden friendship and the stubbornness of Fernand Portal and Lord Halifax. His biographer Regis Ladous in fact the spiritual father of Antoine Martel , Pierre Pascal , Jean Guitton and Yves Congar. References
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