The Catholic Church’s view of marriage

The CatholicWay.wordpress.com ^ | July 31, 2012 | Ronald Ayers

[Salvation]

Which one?

Both from the website.

[Kansas58]

You have shown your ignorance now.
A VALID marriage requires sincere, conscientious, and informed consent to the duties of married life, in an atmosphere free of coercive forces or ulterior motives. A valid “contract” under Church and Civil law also requires mental competence of the parties involved.
If this is not the case, GOD DID NOT BLESS THE UNION!

[bboop]

Thanks for posting this. Just this morning I was trying to find the words to say to my son + girlfriend + baby that would be the Christian reasons for marriage.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Your opinion shows you don't give a hoot about personal responsibility. Don't want to be bound to someone till death do thee part? Don't marry them.

CCC on Divorce

2382 The Lord Jesus insisted on the original intention of the Creator who willed that marriage be indissoluble.174 He abrogates the accommodations that had slipped into the old Law.175 Between the baptized, "a ratified and consummated marriage cannot be dissolved by any human power or for any reason other than death."176 2383 The separation of spouses while maintaining the marriage bond can be legitimate in certain cases provided for by canon law.177 If civil divorce remains the only possible way of ensuring certain legal rights, the care of the children, or the protection of inheritance, it can be tolerated and does not constitute a moral offense. 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: If a husband, separated from his wife, approaches another woman, he is an adulterer because he makes that woman commit adultery, and the woman who lives with him is an adulteress, because she has drawn another's husband to herself.178 2385 Divorce is immoral also because it introduces disorder into the family and into society. This disorder brings grave harm to the deserted spouse, to children traumatized by the separation of their parents and often torn between them, and because of its contagious effect which makes it truly a plague on society. 2386 It can happen that one of the spouses is the innocent victim of a divorce decreed by civil law; this spouse therefore has not contravened the moral law. There is a considerable difference between a spouse who has sincerely tried to be faithful to the sacrament of marriage and is unjustly abandoned, and one who through his own grave fault destroys a canonically valid marriage.179

[Kansas58]

It is none of your judgmental business but I have not remarried.
And I am not the one who filed for divorce which is also none of your business.
But, since you feel you have the right to call others “SINNERS” I think it is only fair to point out again that YOU are a sinner.
Your entire premise with this post is sinful.
There are COUNTLESS Church publications, with valid imprimaturs, which clearly state that Divorce itself is not to be considered sinful.

[fabian]

The one at your post title...he looks like he is soft and apologizing for being Jesus!

[Salvation]

You’re welcome.

[BlatherNaut]

2386 It can happen that one of the spouses is the innocent victim of a divorce decreed by civil law; this spouse therefore has not contravened the moral law. There is a considerable difference between a spouse who has sincerely tried to be faithful to the sacrament of marriage and is unjustly abandoned, and one who through his own grave fault destroys a canonically valid marriage

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Suppose the unbaptized spouse in a canonically valid marriage “unjustly abandons” the baptized spouse and destroys the marriage? Would these be clear grounds for an annulment?

[ravenwolf]

I believe divorce is wrong, but what is the picture above? is it a woman with a beard or a man with the hair of a woman.

[Salvation]

Sacred Heart of Jesus from the website.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I would suppose that a Church tribunal would consider such a situation grounds for an annulment, but it would depend on the particulars.

Problem #1 of course being, why is a Catholic marrying an unbaptized person in the first place.

[BlatherNaut]

Problem #1 of course being, why is a Catholic marrying an unbaptized person in the first place.

No kidding. But the Church grants a dispensation in such cases if the promise is made to bring up the kids Catholic. And on top of it all, there is confusion regarding the "Internal Forum" thing, particularly since the recent papal comments regarding the Orthodox, etc. So my brother, who was deserted by his first wife and is in a second (civil only) marriage now thinks it's o.k. to receive Communion. It would be nice if he could straighten out his situation for the sake of his kids.