Posted on 11/23/2022 7:19:21 PM PST by marshmallow
Italian church weddings face catastrophic collapse after COVID pandemic
ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - The Vatican is rejecting a government proposal to subsidize weddings in Catholic churches, even though only 1 out of 4 Italians is now opting for a church wedding.
On Sunday, Abp. Vincenzo Paglia, head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, spurned the offer of a tax bonus of up to 20,000 euros to be used for the expenses of couples who marry in the churches of Italy — a country that currently has one of the lowest marriage rates in the world.
"For the Church, marriage is a sacrament, and a sacrament cannot be bought," Paglia told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, rebuffing the offer made by the nationalist Lega Nord (Northern League) party in Italy's parliament.
Lega Nord is led by deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini, who has been at odds with Pope Francis and the Italian bishops for Salvini's opposition to illegal immigration and the hegemony of globalists and the European Union.
"My objective is to give economic serenity to Italians to encourage them to have children. I refuse to think of substituting 10 million Italians with 10 million migrants," Salvini told The Guardian in 2021.
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Marriage is a luxury good, and part of the reason is the high cost of weddings.
Go back to the way my grandparents did it. Quiet service in the church with cake at the girl’s parents house.
If the EUR 20K were for “same sex weddings,” this creep Paglia (and his boss) would be all for it.
That money should be reserved for couples who have their babies baptized. And NOT for "expenses" - rather, to purchase cribs, diapers, etc. or to set up college funds.
Regards,
But an annulment and indulgences can.
Annulment is not a Sacrament. Its a court process.
Indulgences are not sold.
Technicalities.
And indulgences most certainly were sold in the past and even today want a donation.
And annulments are nothing less than church sanctioned divorce.
In other words you lied.
Annulments are not Sacraments. They are not divorce, because its a legal investigation whether people were permitted to marry to begin with, the couple have to prove they were not capable to marry. You lied here.
I can look in the Church Manuel of indulgences, no suggested donation attached. People in history have committed all kinds of abuses, that doesn’t make those abuses the teaching of the Catholic Church. Indulgences are also, not Sacraments.
There are civil annulments too. Annulment voids a marriage for reasons that existed prior to the marriage. For example if it turns out that one of the parties was already married. A divorce ends a marriage based on reasons that occurred during the marriage. For example infidelity. In both cases the legitimacy of children is not affected, iirc.
Annulment is church sanctioned divorce.
There’s no such thing recognized by God or in Scripture as an “invalid” marriage. That is a complete fabrication by Catholicism to excuse away and rationalize divorce.
The underlined is simply false. Why do you repeat it?
For example, the conditions for the November 1 to 8 plenary indulgence are:
I understand that you hate everything about the Catholic church, but at least make an effort to be accurate.
Seriously? Have you ever even read the Old Testament?
What do you call it if a brother accidentally marries his sister? (It's certainly happened before.)
For that matter, what do you call it if a brother intentionally marries his sister? (The ancient Egyptian royals did it all the time.)
It's not a valid marriage, it can only be an invalid marriage.
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