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Church must reconcile divorce and remarriage, German cardinal says
Catholic Online ^ | 3/12/2014 | By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)

Posted on 03/16/2014 10:57:01 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town

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To: EBH

They were married over 10 years. My sister worked hard at it, but was becoming frightened of him. He was getting violent and saying nonsensical things. In addition, she was heading an OSI detachment and when she lead the security team for Roslyn Carter on Carter’s visit to Maine, the Secret Service showed her his letters to the President. We’re talking about two people who carry guns. He was a licensed private investigator.

It was definitely time to go. Luckily, he’d called his father and so worried the elderly man he raced to Maine and had his son committed. I think they’re both fortunate it ended that way.


21 posted on 03/16/2014 12:08:51 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: EBH

Well, yes. So. Either take marriage seriously, or don’t.

Adults get married. Either they’re wise in their choice, or they can tell the Church, they weren’t serious about all those vows during their matrimonial mass.

But there are consequences.

A lot of people who are Catholic think they can tell God there shouldn’t be consequences, this German bishop included, so, join them.

But there are consequences.

I think you mean that when people get married in the Church, they shouldn’t be expected to actually live up to it.

If there are legitimate reasons to annul the marriage, the Church will annul it. That has to be easier? In what way? And why?

People just revel in scolding the Church. Take it somewhere else, leave me out of it. Adults can either be adults and make good decisions or live with the bad ones.


22 posted on 03/16/2014 12:16:58 PM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

Yes that is what I thought when I read the article and the initial “commentary”.


23 posted on 03/16/2014 12:20:20 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: stanne
No one in the Church thinks that suffering with a mentally ill spouse is something God wants for anyone

Well. you're right about that…but that's not what the law of the Church says.

Many, many annulments are given because the tribunal believes "suffering with [fill in the blank] is not what God wants for anyone", but, if each party was NOT mentally ill on the day of the wedding and if they both intended matrimony, and presuming the marriage was not illegal (age, consent, consummation, open to children), then, whether or not God wants the spouse of the now severely mentally ill [or whatever] person to suffer, that's what the law says he or she must do.

24 posted on 03/16/2014 12:29:40 PM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise. H)
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To: plain talk

I always expect anti catholic sentiments on this forum. Keep talking no one cares


25 posted on 03/16/2014 12:31:30 PM PDT by stanne
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To: vladimir998
I looked real hard through many different bible versions and nowhere could I find a verse that says, "The wages of certain kinds of sin are death."
26 posted on 03/16/2014 12:40:47 PM PDT by bubbacluck (America 180)
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To: liege

1 John 5:16

The text says what it says. Some sins are sins that lead to death, but clearly not all sins lead to death. The text is plain enough.


27 posted on 03/16/2014 12:43:26 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: stanne

I am not anti-Catholic in general having tolerated worshipping as a Catholic for 20 years. :-) Dangerous business when Pharisees start judging degrees of sin.


28 posted on 03/16/2014 12:45:30 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: EBH

That’s too literal an application about “until sickness and in health.”
There are all kinds of very complicated marriage relationships. Today, according to one study several married couples live apart in the same house since divorce gets the whole family into the poorhouse.


29 posted on 03/16/2014 12:46:59 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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To: Jim Noble

I’m not talking about Alzheimer’s or like that, I’m talking about mental illness that can be cured but the guy won’t go for help and they’re abusive. Some marriages have suffering but koy can be derived

If there’s abuse and denial with no hope, that’s what I’m talking about


30 posted on 03/16/2014 12:52:41 PM PDT by stanne
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To: vladimir998
I understand the distinction between physical death and spiritual death. Any and all sin leads to spiritual death, hence the need of a saviour to save us from our sins. Our sin separates us from God.

Then there are sins that lead to physical death. Like, for instance, disobeying speed limits on an interstate and dying in a fiery, head on collision.

31 posted on 03/16/2014 12:53:56 PM PDT by bubbacluck (America 180)
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To: Jim from C-Town

Why not get rid of all those pesky commandments too..they are so restrictive to a progressive society?!


32 posted on 03/16/2014 1:08:24 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ("There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." - Thomas Jeffersony")
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To: plain talk

whatever


33 posted on 03/16/2014 1:09:35 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Jim from C-Town

No


34 posted on 03/16/2014 1:12:28 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Bryan24

And yes, even Moses talked of divorce.


35 posted on 03/16/2014 1:13:42 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.)
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To: plain talk; Jim from C-Town

**People that remarry are no more sinners than you are or anyone else.**

 

Not what the Bible says:

Gospel Mk 10:1-12

Jesus came into the district of Judea and across the Jordan.
Again crowds gathered around him and, as was his custom,
he again taught them.
The Pharisees approached him and asked,
“Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?”
They were testing him.
He said to them in reply, “What did Moses command you?”
They replied,
“Moses permitted a husband to write a bill of divorce
and dismiss her.”
But Jesus told them,
“Because of the hardness of your hearts
he wrote you this commandment.
But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.
For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two shall become one flesh.
So they are no longer two but one flesh.

Therefore what God has joined together,
no human being must separate.”
In the house the disciples again questioned Jesus about this.
He said to them,
“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another
commits adultery against her;
and if she divorces her husband and marries another,
she commits adultery.”


36 posted on 03/16/2014 1:20:13 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

Enough said there!


37 posted on 03/16/2014 1:45:38 PM PDT by cutofyourjib (Repent and pray for one another!)
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To: Salvation
Matt 5:31 “It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ 32 But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

She in the first case doesn't commit adultery by re-marrying. He in the second case does not commit adultery. In Matthew he who divorces 'except on the ground of sexual immorality' makes her commit adultery and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

So why Mark instead of Matthew?

38 posted on 03/16/2014 2:01:44 PM PDT by xone
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To: Salvation

Right adultery. Just like you or me commit adultery ever time we look at another woman with lust. Just like you or me commit murder every time we get angry with someone. It goes on and on .. It is all sin and it is a dangerous business when Pharisees play God and start judging how bad one sin is vs another.


39 posted on 03/16/2014 2:40:36 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: stanne

I think you need to stuff it pack in the bag for a moment and go reread what I wrote.


40 posted on 03/16/2014 2:47:21 PM PDT by EBH (And the head wound was healed...)
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