A US Catholic pressure group has lodged a petition in Rome after accusing Bishop Vittorio Francesco Viola, Secretary of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, of advancing a position on the jurisdiction of marriage that the group claims contradicts established Catholic teaching.
Mary’s Advocates, a lay organisation that upholds marriage against no-fault divorce, focusing particularly on Catholic marriage, and which defends spouses who oppose a civil divorce, argues that the bishop’s stance involves an error historically condemned as an “anathema”.
