Posted on 12/30/2010 10:20:14 AM PST by Alex Murphy
If it’s not mortal, it’s venial.
Then it wouldn’t be such a serious issue, would it?
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/index/d.htm
About 3/4 the way down is all the references in the CCC on divorce with links to take you to the statements.
Those in the process of divorce cannot take communion unless certain conditions are met.
So, tell me again how divorce is not a mortal sin?
It sure seems serious enough to have the church take a stand against Catholics divorcing taking communion, that is until they get an official annulment from the church.
A more convoluted system of religiosity does not exist. Catholics can find ways to finesse God’s directives in ways that would make the Pharisees blush with shame that they hadn’t thought of it.
Since you have shown that you have an incomplete knowledge of both the spirit and the letter of canon law, why not drop it?
So Catholics have different levels of sin? Some more acceptable than others or what?
Exactly. Their deceptive practices lead to more deception. Notice how little the RCC thinks about the children involved. What a sham their man made rules are.
It beats the hell out of simply ignoring them or clinging to their perversion by some old French kook to give you a fig leaf of morality.
The Church speaks clearly on this subject:
CCC 2384 Divorce is a grave offense against the natural law. It claims to break the contract, to which the spouses freely consented, to live with each other till death. Divorce does injury to the covenant of salvation, of which sacramental marriage is the sign. Contracting a new union, even if it is recognized by civil law, adds to the gravity of the rupture: the remarried spouse is then in a situation of public and permanent adultery:
Oh? When did I lie to or deceive the church? To whom did I misrepresent myself and when? What vows are you accusing me of breaking?
It looks like wmfights was right, that you are accusing me of something.
On what basis, pray tell? What do you think you know about me that causes you to make those statements?
It's written in the dirt.
Me? No.
I'm a new creature in Christ. I've been forgiven by God through the one and only mediator between God and man, Christ Jesus, and don't have to live with feelings of guilt anymore. That's the beauty of being set free in Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Philippians 3:13b-14 But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
I will sleep like a baby tonight, secure in the knowledge that I belong to Him and that nothing can separate me from His love.
Why do they always put words out there or insinuations which are never stated? Sheesh....just means you were making your point clear before they started Metmom.
Annulment is simply Catholic divorce with church sanctioned finessing of God’s directives. It’s a way to provide guilt free and consequence free divorces for Catholics.
Canon law is a joke. The whole thing is simply a system designed to finagle their way out of obeying God’s clear and plain commands as set forth in His word.
The CCC is a self-contradictory set of statements that allows a Catholic to claim they’re right about any topic they’re discussing with a non-Catholic. It plays both sides against the middle.
LOL - News Flash! Calvin's concept of forgiveness does not come with a "Get out of Hell Free Card" and doesn't indemnify you against all future sins. Frankly, your performance on these threads and the absence of beatitude is pretty convincing evidence of a lack of unity with Jesus and a lack of communion with the saints.
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Yeah, there's mortal sin and venial sin.
Mortal sin will land you in hell if you don't make it to confession to confess them before you die. Things like murder and divorce are mortal sins.
Venial sins are more like lying and will result in an extended stay in the torture chamber of purgatory.
Of course, the Catholic church can re-categorize the sin depending.........
And I think you can fill in what the depending is pretty well. (Think Kennedy)
When you can’t attack the message, attack the messenger.
Annulment is a total farce and everyone except brainwashed Catholics recognize that it’s just a matter of semantics and there’s simply no practical difference between it and divorce.
If Catholics only realized how foolish they look defending the indefensible like that......
Since you are a self-professed former Catholic who purports to know all thing Catholic you should know better, but I guess that's what makes a lie a lie.
an annulment treats the marriage as though it never happened...hahahahahaah...AND it makes it easier for them to remarry. That’s a one two punch...No Divorce “stigma”...and they can say they were never married...then remarry and slip into bed with someone else as a new bride!.....oh how sneaky is that!
Wonder if they can still annul if there are children? Humm...do they then say the children didn’t happen? Naw...they don’t do that with kids do they?
Seriously, there is no point in any Catholic being on this thread. People who want to hate the Church will manufacture any excuse to do so. I find no visible signs of intelligence here, so, see you around.
INDEED.
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