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Vatican City, Sep 13, 2016 / 03:46 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis has written a private message approving the Buenos Aires bishops’ response to the divorced-and-remarried inspired by his apostolic exhortation on the family.The pastoral response said ministry to the divorced-and-remarried must never create confusion about Church teaching and the indissolubility of marriage, but may also allow access to the sacraments under specific limits. These may include specific situations when a penitent in an irregular union is under attenuated culpability, as when leaving such a union could cause harm to his children.The bishops of the Buenos Aires region had written basic criteria for their priests about the Pope’s post-synodal exhortation Amoris laetitia, which was released April 8 following two synods on the family.The Pope discussed these criteria in a Sept. 5 letter addressed to Bishop Sergio Alfredo Fenoy of San Miguel, a delegate of the Argentina bishops’ Buenos Air...
Richmond, Va., Sep 13, 2016 / 04:56 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Soon after Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Kaine suggested the Catholic Church would change on same-sex marriage, the Bishop of Richmond has said Catholic teaching on marriage is constant.“More than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on marriage, and despite recent statements from the campaign trail, the Catholic Church’s 2000-year-old teaching to the truth about what constitutes marriage remains unchanged and resolute,” Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo of Richmond said Sept. 13.“As Catholics, we believe all humans warrant dignity and deserve love and respect, and unjust discrimination is always wrong,” he said. “Our understanding of marriage, however, is a matter of justice and fidelity to our Creator’s original design.”Bishop DiLorenzo’s statement does not mention Kaine. The former U.S. Senator is a parishioner at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church in the...
By Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON (CNS) -- In grappling with the issue ofIslamophobia, a Georgetown University research group conducted an examinationof conscience of sorts by looking at Catholic perceptions of Islam and how theseviews may have been influenced by Catholic news outlets and publications.Theresults are a mixed bag, showing how Catholics often have negative or limitedviews about Islam, but also giving catechists, church leaders and Catholicjournalists a starting point for the work ahead, according to the study'sauthor, Jordan Denari Duffner.Duffner,a research fellow at Georgetown University's Bridge Initiative, which studies Islamophobia,presented results of the report, "Danger and Dialogue: American CatholicOpinion and Portrayals of Islam," Sept. 12 at the university.Thereport, based on a survey of 1,027 people polled between April 9-15, 2015, isavailable at http://bridge.georgetown.edu. Some of its key findings show:--Nearly half of Catholics can't name any similarities ...
By WASHINGTON(CNS) -- Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore sharply criticized commentsmade by Martin Castro, chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, thatthe phrases "religious liberty" and "religious freedom" were "code words" used todiscriminate."Statementspainting those who support religious freedom with the broad brush of bigotryare reckless and reveal a profound disregard for the religious foundations ofhis own work," said Archbishop Lori of Castro in a Sept. 13 statement.ArchbishopLori, chairman of the U.S. bishops' Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty,said the notion that people of faith are "comparable to fringe segregationistsfrom the civil rights era" is a "shocking suggestion."Castromade the statements as part of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights' 306-pagereport, "Peaceful Coexistence: Reconciling Nondiscrimination Principles WithCivil Liberties." Originally scheduled for issuance in 2013, its release wasdelayed until Sept. 8 -- and even then, two on the se...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The armed occupiers who seized a remote bird sanctuary in Oregon early this year are being tried because their actions intimidated and threatened federal employees, not because they challenged the government's land policies, a prosecutor said Tuesday as a trial began for seven people accused in the standoff....
GENEVA (AP) -- Confidential medical data of gold medal-winning gymnast Simone Biles, seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams and other female U.S. Olympians was hacked from a World Anti-Doping Agency database and posted online Tuesday....
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- The head of a Texas company building the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline told employees Tuesday that it is committed to the project despite strong opposition and a federal order to voluntarily halt construction near an American Indian reservation in North Dakota....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A war of words over Donald Trump's "deplorables" is intensifying as Republicans and Democrats fight for political points over Hillary Clinton's claim that many of the New York billionaire's supporters are racist, sexist and homophobic....
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Donald Trump is rolling out plans Tuesday to make child care more affordable, guaranteeing new mothers six weeks of paid maternity leave and suggesting new incentives for employees to provide their workers childcare, breaking with conservative orthodoxy and wading into topics more often discussed by Democrats....
BEIRUT (AP) -- A cease-fire brokered by the U.S. and Russia brought calm across much of Syria on Tuesday as residents of the northern city of Aleppo awaited an expected aid shipment....
