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OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea (AP) -- A powerful U.S. B-52 bomber flew low over South Korea on Sunday, a clear show of force from the United States as a Cold War-style standoff deepened between its ally Seoul and North Korea following Pyongyang's fourth nuclear test....
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Recaptured drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's secret interview with U.S. actor Sean Penn helped authorities locate his whereabouts, a Mexican law enforcement official said late Saturday....
Dagupan, Philippines, Jan 9, 2016 / 04:06 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The president of the Filipino bishops' conference has explained that couples are unable to write their own wedding vows because in the sacrament of marriage, it is Christ himself who is acting through the husband and wife.Archbishop Socrates Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan wrote recently that personal expressions “should not be mixed in with the Church’s liturgy because this diminishes, confuses, and spoils the action of Christ himself in the sacrament.”The archbishop made this clarification in response to the increasing practice of couples attempting to write their own vows and to replace those established by the marriage rite.Archbishop Villegas explained that Catholic couples cannot do this because it would be deleterious to the rite and because they do not have the authority to change the wedding liturgy.“The sacred character of the marriage rite must not be compromised at the altar with roma...
Dagupan, Philippines, Jan 9, 2016 / 04:06 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The president of the Filipino bishops' conference has explained that couples are unable to write their own wedding vows because in the sacrament of marriage, it is Christ himself who is acting through the husband and wife.
Archbishop Socrates Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan wrote recently that personal expressions “should not be mixed in with the Church’s liturgy because this diminishes, confuses, and spoils the action of Christ himself in the sacrament.”
The archbishop made this clarification in response to the increasing practice of couples attempting to write their own vows and to replace those established by the marriage rite.
Archbishop Villegas explained that Catholic couples cannot do this because it would be deleterious to the rite and because they do not have the authority to change the wedding liturgy.
“The sacred character of the marriage rite must not be compromised at the altar with romanticism,” the archbishop wrote.
He recalled that the liturgy “does not belong to us, and so we can’t change it.” Quoting from Sacrosanctum Concilium, Vatican II's 1963 constitution on the sacred liturgy, he added that “no person, even if he be a priest, may add, remove, or change anything in the liturgy on his own authority.”
Archbishop Villegas added that authority to change the liturgy is held by the Vatican, and in certain cases, by bishops' conferences. This, he explained, is why a couple is unable to take the initiative in writing their own vows.
Instead of using personalized vows within the marriage service, he noted, couples are welcome to use such individualized words at their wedding reception or a similar gathering following the liturgical service.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A man who investigators say claimed he shot and wounded a Philadelphia police officer in the name of Islam was charged Saturday with attempted murder....
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- The U.S. Navy on Saturday released footage it said showed Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessels firing rockets near warships and commercial traffic in the strategic Strait of Hormuz late last month, a move raising tensions between the two nations despite the recent nuclear deal....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea's leader has taken a victory tour to celebrate the country's widely disputed claim of a hydrogen bomb test, seeking to rally pride in an explosion viewed with outrage by much of the world and boost his domestic political goals....
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MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico is willing to extradite drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States, a federal law enforcement official said Saturday, a sharp reversal from the official position after his last capture in 2014....
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