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To: ArrogantBustard

to those who divorce...and REMARRY


30 posted on 05/10/2012 8:17:07 AM PDT by silverleaf (Funny how all the people who are for abortion are already born)
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To: silverleaf
to those who divorce...and REMARRY

Thank you.

The question can now be addressed.

1) Abortion is a hideous act; a matter of mortal sin. One who commits it, with full knowledge and consent, damns himself to Hell (and cuts himself off from Holy Communion. He faces an immediate and automatic excommunication). One who, having committed it then repents and asks God's forgiveness can be forgiven, can be saved from Hell by the unmerited grace of God, and restored to Communion. That is the Gospel.

2) Divorce is a matter for civil governments to argue about. The Church rejects the notion that a marriage, validly contracted, can be ended other than by the death of one of the spouses.

3) "Remarriage" following a civil divorce, is a misnomer. It is, in fact, an ongoing and institutionalized situation of public and unrepented adultery. It is a matter of mortal sin. Those who engage in it damn themselves to Hell (and cut themselves off from Holy Communion.) They too can repent, be forgiven, and be restored to Grace ... persistence in the ongoing and institutionalized situation of public and unrepented adultery would contraindicate repentance.

33 posted on 05/10/2012 8:34:54 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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