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Swiss Bishop offers 9 marriage sanctity rules based on Pope’s Amoris Laetitia
The Holiness of the Marriage Bond – A word on the post-synodal apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia (Chur, Switzerland) Dear brothers in the priestly ministry, In the discussion around the post-synodal apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, the eighth chapter centers on the question of divorced-and-civilly-remarried persons. For this reason I give, in my responsibility as bishop, some advice on this to pastors (confessors). I would like to express the following: The Holy Father says in the introduction to Amoris Laetitia “that not all discussions of doctrinal, moral or pastoral issues need to be settled by interventions of the magisterium” (AL 3). This statement helps us recognize the level of authority of post-synodal apostolic exhortations. “If we consider the immense variety of concrete ...

Pope Francis: Marriage and the family are in crisis
(Vatican Radio) On Monday, Pope Francis addressed a Colloquium being held on the theme “The Complementarity of Man and Woman in Marriage.” The Holy Father began his address by dwelling on the word “complementarity”: “a precious word, with multiple meanings.” Although complementarity can refer “situations where one of two things adds to, completes, or fulfills a lack in the other” it also means much more than that. Christians, he said, “find its deepest meaning in the first Letter to the Corinthians where Saint Paul tells us that the Spirit has endowed each of us with different gifts so that-just as the human body’s members work together for the good of the whole-everyone’s gifts can work together for the benefit of ...

10 Issues With The Media’s Narrative About Catholicism & The Synod on Marriage & Family
by Aggie Catholics The media frames all the synod’s discussions in terms of politics. The usual narrative is progressive vs conservative and too often Catholics get caught in this game as well. We have to learn that these are political terms and don’t really apply to The Church. The media only sees the human element of the Church, not the divine element. There is more to the Catholic Church than just humans who have agendas, play political games, and are trying to get their way. But, since all the media sees are these human elements, the divine elements are not part of the story. A discussion on issues doesn’t mean the Church is adopting every aspect of the discussion. Pope Francis has asked the ...

Justice and Mercy in Church Marriage Law
  In the run up to the October Synod of Bishops on marriage and the family, experts in Church marriage law came together in Rome this week to discuss the theme ‘Pastoral Marriage: Justice and Mercy, Antidotes Against ‘Laxism’ and ‘Rigorism’”. The study day at the University of the Holy Cross on May 22 aimed to show how justice and mercy are two sides of the same coin in the Church’s marriage law, which avoid “laxism” and “rigorism” in the pastoral approach to marriage. Professor Carlos Jose Errazuriz explained that very often mercy and law are perceived as “radically antithetical,” as two separate worlds that follow opposite logics: “kind, flexible and compassionate love on one hand, and a system of ...

Why We Should Stop Making Arguments for Traditional Marriage
Another judge, this one in Arkansas, has struck down a state law banning same-sex marriage on the ground that the ban has no “rational” basis. In other words, the defenders of the law were not able to prove that the discrimination (against gays and lesbians) involved in the law served a useful social purpose. It is a waste of time trying to prove that a law restricting marriage to male-female combinations is “rational” in the sense that it serves a useful social purpose. Now I happen to think that traditional male-female marriage is useful and that same-sex marriage will in the long run prove to be socially harmful — very harmful indeed — but I doubt that I can prove this to ...

Until the Ends of the Earth: A Celibate Story in Canada
Mylene Otou is a Missionary of the Covenant Community from Montreal, Canada. On August 31, 2025, she became the first Canadian Shalom Missionary to profess Vows of Celibacy for the Kingdom of Heaven.     Let us read her testimony about that day and everything that led to it.  A Day to Remember  As I am writing these lines, I recall that one week ago, I was here at home, at the same table, preparing myself for one of the most important days of my life: my First Vows of Celibacy for the Kingdom, which I would pronounce the next day. For the occasion, two of my Celibate sisters from my mother mission of Toronto were here to help me ...
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