Posted on 01/12/2005 6:59:11 PM PST by AAABEST
So granting annullments is a money making venture for the church? >>>>
No
Re: post 18: "desire to get this annullment (It's not cheap!)"
Why on earth would they charge you, if it is not to make money?
Sigh. It's not a classic pedophile crisis. Look at the numbers it's a homosexual problem. A problem to the point they had to create an entirely new class of deviant.
So now there is an officially 'gay Catholic' church in Baltimore? Do the words "go and sin no more mean anything". That goes for the priests too. This ain't a fraternity. The picking and choosing of which scripture to follow isn't anything new nor is it different than what alot of other churches are teaching these days.
grrrr
Because there are lawyers involved.
There are no lawyers involved. The "charge" for an annulment is around $400, to cover administrative expenses. In most dioceses, if someone cannot pay, or refuses to pay, the annulment process will proceed anyway.
It's not $400.00 everywhere sinky, and I'm not the one who is saying it's expensive. Aren't canon lawyers a part of divorce tribunals that review the cases?
oops of course I meant to say annulment tribunals.
Nobody is turned away if they cannot pay for the administrative costs of an annulment.
I was not aware that most canon lawyers are priests, for I have little (as in no) personal contact with them. Anyway I was originally just trying to make a joke.
It's a tribunal almost like a court of appeals, it costs money to do investigations, paperwork, process forms, pay secretarial staff; canon lawyers are often involved. The process can take a year or more.
Murph
The last I heard in Portland they ask for $300 if the annulee (?) can afford it. If not any donation will suffice.
My brother-in-law worked at the tribunal in another diocese and has said that there are dozens of professional hours on each case.
What does the church do with leaders who do not tow the line?
Are they fired?
Sodomy is one of the sins that cries out to heaven for vengeance.
One Pope even said, "Homosexuality is a sin so vile that even the angels of hell are repulsed by it."
Dogogonit, i shoulgd have readg this warnnning firsyt.
Annd I jusst bought this keyaboard.
I have been divorced 32 years, never re-married and have been celibate quite a few years.
The Church will let you participate in the Eucharist if you never re-married and are in the state of grace. Especially if you did not institute teh divorce.
snip...go somewhere else, or up your standards. Don't expect the Church to lower her standards to accommodate. It isn't going to happen, and it shouldn't
But 'lowering standards' is exactly what same-sex types are calling on us to do. When they carp and cry about our hateful unfairness, what they're really saying is this: "If you only understood (that we can't live UP to your standards) our pain,you'd be sensitive and accepting (make exceptions for us by lowering your standards).
Hate's an awfully strong word.
Hate's an awfully strong word.
"Either that or it's a Newspaper from hell under the guise of a homosexual Newspaper."
Isn't a "homosexual newspaper" by definition a "newspaper from hell"?
Assuming, that is, that you're not talking of newspapers which have sex with other newspapers of the same sex! ;)
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