"If you've lived in mortal sin for ten years, and it's made a mess of three childrens' lives as well as your own, why stop now?"
Posted on 03/02/2017 9:07:48 AM PST by ebb tide
Think of a woman who lives with a married man. She has three little children. She has already been with this man for 10 years. Now the children think of her as a mother. He, the partner, is very much anchored to this woman, as a lover, as a woman. If this woman were to say: “I am leaving this mistaken union because I want to correct my life, but if I did this, I would harm the children and the partner,” then she might say: “I would like to, but I cannot.” In precisely these cases, based on one’s intention to change and the impossibility of changing, I can give that person the sacraments, in the expectation that the situation is definitively clarified.
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This is the Rhetoric they warned us about accepting in Catholic high school. It hasn’t changed and never will.
"If you've lived in mortal sin for ten years, and it's made a mess of three childrens' lives as well as your own, why stop now?"
Following Christ is not an easy path.
Bad cases make bad law.
This is NOT how God determines good and evil.
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