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Marriage Advocate Offers Petitions to Vatican Addressing Marriage Abandonment
Spero News ^ | 02/23/12 | Spero News

Posted on 02/23/2012 10:20:39 PM PST by Catholic Iowan

Two canon lawyers reviewed the "Vindicate Rights Petition."Philip Gray, J.C.L, says "in the vast majority of cases today, divorce has become an 'easy out' to avoid responsibility, pass blame, obtain revenge, or somehow justify problems in the marital relationship or between parents and children."

Canon lawyer Fr. Chuck Zmudzinski, C.P.M., J.C.L. explained, "I worked in a marriage tribunal for about five years and one of the reasons I eventually quit was because I did not agree with how strongly biased the tribunal officials seemed to be against the bond of matrimony."

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TOPICS: Catholic; General Discusssion; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: annulments; divorce; marriage; tribunals
This is an excellent article about a Vindicate Rights Petition that may be a way to curb divorce and strengthen marriages!
1 posted on 02/23/2012 10:20:41 PM PST by Catholic Iowan
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To: Catholic Iowan
Yes, this is aa excellent article.
Sad, sad, sad is the human story of divorce. The children learn all about "love and marriage" from their fighting, angry, bitter parents. They often repeat the mistakes, not having much other role-modeling...especially in our world of Hollweird coupling showing beautiful young people validating the stupidity and vanity of our flawed world.
2 posted on 02/24/2012 5:51:01 AM PST by cloudmountain
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To: Catholic Iowan

I once attended a Mass in a cathedral at which the theme of the sermon (preached by a priest, not by the bishop) was how easy it was to get an annulment. The point obviously was to be to get any Catholics who were there who had divorced and remarried to apply for an annulment of their first marriage so their second marriage could then be approved by the Church.


3 posted on 02/24/2012 7:30:25 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

Yes, unfortunately, this is pretty typical of the mentality by many priests (and bishops) in the Church today. It is truly a scandalous situation, and while they may claim to be “pastoral,” to those in “irregular” (i.e. adulterous) “marriages”, they don’t seem to care a bit for those innocent spouses and children whose lives have been destroyed by unilateral “no-fault” divorce, and then suffer the indignity of being told that their marriage is not valid. It’s evil!


4 posted on 02/26/2012 9:46:26 PM PST by Catholic Iowan
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