Manila, Philippines, Mar 16, 2018 / 12:40 pm
As the Philippines considers legalizing divorce, the nation's bishops are speaking out against the measure, warning that it would be detrimental to couples and families, especially children.
"In a context in which divorce is presented as an easy option, marriages and families are bound to break up more easily," said Archbishop Romulo Valles of Davao, the president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines.
"Divorce, while it may indeed provide quick legal remedies for some seemingly 'failed marriages,' might end up destroying even those marriages that could have been saved by dialogues or the intervention of family, friends, pastors and counselors," Archbishop Valles continued.
Valles' words came in a pastoral statement on behalf of the country's bishops, released on March 13.