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Chur, Switzerland, Feb 3, 2017 / 10:51 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Referring extensively to Pope Francis' writing in Amoris laetitia, a Swiss bishop on Thursday gave direction on how to implement the exhortation, emphasizing respect for the sanctity of the marriage bond.“The task of pastoral care is to convey to the people an awareness of the sanctity of the marriage bond, or to convey it again,” Bishop Vitus Huonder of Chur wrote in his Feb. 2 letter “The Holiness of the Marriage Bond”.After an extensive introduction which quoted at length from Amoris laetitia, Bishop Huonder asked the priests of the Chur diocese to observe nine points, the first of which is that “the starting point for accompaniment, discernment, and integration must be the sanctity of the marriage bond.”He emphasized the holiness of marriage, present in the natural order and strengthened in sacramental one. “The formation of conscience regarding this truth is an urgent task ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jamal Nasrallah, EPABy Dennis SadowskiWASHINGTON(CNS) -- The breadth of President Donald Trump's authority to limit refugeesentering the United States will be fought in federal court and some of thelegal challenges ultimately may end up before the U.S. Supreme Court.Severallawsuits have been filed challenging Trump's Jan. 27 executive memorandum that suspended the entire U.S.refugee resettlement program for 120 days and banned entry of all citizens fromseven majority-Muslim countries -- Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Yemen andSomalia -- for 90 days.Another clause in the memorandumestablished religious criteria for refugees, proposing to give priority toreligious minorities over others who may have equally compelling refugeeclaims.In fiveof the earliest lawsuits, federal judges blocked the government from denying entryto anyone from the affected countries with a valid visa. One decision came from U.S.District Judge Andre Birotte Jr. in Los Angeles, whose Feb. 1 or...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Super Bowl advertisers are treading carefully this year to avoid alienating customers as a divisive political climate takes some of the buzz away from what is usually the biggest spectacle on TV....
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) -- Receipts from taxi rides, ledgers listing internet usage for the privileged few and random logbooks documenting an ever tighter economy are just some of the documents that Islamic State militants left behind when they fled eastern Mosul in the face of advancing Iraqi forces....
SMYRNA, Del. (AP) -- Before he died, held in a closet by inmates at Delaware's largest prison, Sgt. Steven Floyd saved the lives of fellow officers when he called out and warned his would-be rescuers that the inmates had set a trap, the head of the state corrections officers' union said....
AVDIIVKA, Ukraine (AP) -- International monitors on Friday strongly urged the warring sides in eastern Ukraine to silence their guns as heavy artillery and rocket barrages continued to pummel residential areas....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans are increasingly talking about repairing President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, a softer tone that comes as their march to fulfill a keystone campaign promise encounters disunity, drooping momentum and uneasy voters....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration ordered sanctions against more than two dozen people and companies from the Persian Gulf to China Friday in retaliation for Iran's recent ballistic missile test, increasing pressure on Tehran without directly undercutting a landmark nuclear deal with the country....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is taking his first steps aimed at scaling back financial services regulations, and the Republican-run Congress cast a vote early Friday signaling that it's eager to help....
