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To: marshmallow
it doesn't quite tip his hand in terms of which way he may be leaning on the Communion debate.

I think we have a good idea in terms of which way he's leaning -- Left.

5 posted on 02/11/2016 6:38:17 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

As one who knows intimately, there are many inconsistencies in Catholic policies concerning marriage, remarriage, divorce, and annulments. The bad part, is that almost none of these are based on anything biblical.

Here is one example. A pair of Baptist get married, then divorce. One wants to remarry to a Catholic, they have to go through an annulment process, pay money, prove the marriage invalid, in other words if both are baptized, their marriage is sacramental according to the Catholic Church.

Example two is a Catholic marries a baptized Methodist in a Methodist Church. They divorce and the Catholic wants to remarry another Catholic. The marriage between the Catholic and Methodist is automatically invalid because they were not married in a Catholic Church and it is just a paperwork shuffle.

You can’t even find anyone to tell you how this makes sense that a non-Catholic is held to a standard that a Catholic (who knows the rules) is not. The answer is like your parents gave you, “because I say so”.

Some of this needs to be changed, I’m not saying that remarried Communion is the answer, but it is a mess.


6 posted on 02/11/2016 7:09:18 AM PST by nobamanomore
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