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The formal annulment process is often corrupt and unfair.
The “internal forum” SHOULD have the support of the Pope. There are circumstances such as alcoholism, drug abuse, mental illness and the like, where a formal annulment process only serves to “stir the pot” with unstable people involved. It can cause turmoil and abuse and even death.
There are some self righteous jerks on these Freeper threads who have argued these points with me before. It is my sincere hope that the Pope soon puts the falsely pious in their places!
He did this with no instruction with regard to Catholic marriage, at all? And how many of these were non-Catholics?
I smell a an ecclesiastical rat, and wow!, does it ever stink.
Priests have always been marrying couples who were living in sin. And there were plenty back in colonial times, too.
Wouldn’t they simply have to make a confession, do their penance and ask would be right?
Incidentally, there is no such “taboo.”
Whoa, an end to the selling of annulments?
I’ll be charitable and assume the couple confessed and lived apart until the wedding.
Bet you he start marrying queers within 2 years.
Don’t worry. It will all get straighten out in purgatory. ;O)
Why are you posting this? You Protestants do this every day and no one raises an eyebrow...
Ok, so what is the official church teaching on this matter?
I could not care less which way they do it, I am just curious if it is something the Church forbids, if it is something the church upholds then what is the big deal to begin with.
If the Pope is doing something that has been taboo, why was it taboo?
Was the Church found by the Pope to be wrong? so he is righting it?
Then the Church was found not to be infallible wasn’t it?
Something or some one is or was fallible.
Do you have an objection to any of these cases? I’m interested.
How about that....
Now the question becomes....
What are faithful Catholics going to have to do?
Do they follow the pope?
Or do they call for reformation of the church?