VATICAN CITY (CNA/EWTN News) – Numerous bishops voiced alarm over the lack of a clear definition of marriage in the synod's controversial guiding text, prompting a call for one based on scripture and Church teaching to be added.
"The Instrumentum Laboris nowhere defines marriage. This is a serious defect," group "D" of the four English-speaking circles wrote in their second report, published Wednesday.
VATICAN CITY (CNA/EWTN News) – Christauria Welland is a clinical psychologist who's worked with both victims and perpetrators of domestic violence – and with one in three women worldwide suffering from abuse at the hands of a partner, her goal is to make sure bishops know about the problem.
Often kept secret through shame or fear of stigma, the scourge of physical and emotional violence between couples is something the Catholics are anything but immune from, and Welland says she hopes to bring about healing and change through awareness and education.
