Pope Francis is analyzing a proposal presented by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to declare St. Irenaeus a Doctor of the Church.<\/p>\n
The Pope had already affirmed his intention to declare the second-century saint a Doctor of the Church during an audience with the Saint Irenaeus Joint Orthodox-Catholic Working Group in 2021.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS St. Irenaeus is thought to have lived between around the years 130 and 202. He was likely born in Smyrna, in present-day Turkey, and was the Bishop of Lyon, France.<\/p>\n The saint's writings, among them \u201cAgainst Heresies\u201d and \u201cThe Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching,\u201d were written at a time when the Church was being threatened by Gnosticism, which taught that the faith was merely a symbol for people incapable of understanding challenging concepts.<\/p>\n Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI spoke admiringly about the saint during a General Audience in 2007. He described St. Irenaeus as \u201ca man of faith and a Pastor,\u201d and as \u201cthe champion in the fight against heresies.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n CT<\/p>\n VM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 20, 2022. Pope Francis studies a proposal to declare the second-century saint, known for his writings against heresies, a Doctor of the Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UGgxIDXiutI","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bsantireneoeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bsantireneoint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>October 7, 2021
\n'Your patron, Saint Irenaeus of Lyon \u2013 whom soon I will willingly declare a Doctor of the Church with the title \u201cDoctor unitatis\u201d \u2013 came from the East, exercised his episcopal ministry in the West, and was a great spiritual and theological bridge between Eastern and Western Christians.'<\/em><\/p>\n