Posted on 01/30/2019 12:37:14 PM PST by ebb tide
Zenit published the Vatican-provided text of Pope Francis address to the Roman Rota. When the Pope gives his annual address to the Roman Rota, it is understood to be the legislators instruction about canon law. The Roman Rota is a Tribunal of appeal available to any aggrieved party in a judicial canon law case.
Pope Francis discussed the duty of the Church to assist couples, and the obligation of bishops and priests.
In my work upholding marriage, it would be most welcome if Bishops and priests would exercise the pastoral care of teaching the faithful and point out that no-fault divorce is often cruel marital abandonment which is a fracturing of the marriage contract to live in the same household. A dissatisfied spouse, alternatively, should commit oneself to cooperating with experts who have a good track-record of strengthening marriage. Fracturing the contract to live together by divorce is condemned by the Catechism.
Of concern in the Popes address to the Roman Rota is his description of an essential element of marriage, unity.
If this is the language now used by judges of the Roman Rota to decide that a marriage is invalid, we are at a shocking turning point. According to the literal meaning of the text, if one spouse feels she is not experiencing harmony and spiritual riches from the other, to her satisfaction, then she can argue her marriage is invalid because she doesnt have the requirement for validity in the 2019 Papal Address to the Roman Rota.
Saint Pope John Paul II corrected those who erroneously spread the error that valid marriage requires the parties to be successful communicating vessels who are a harmonious single entity.
Ive read many, many writings about grounds for annulment and most critical is a proper understanding of the vocabulary. The most popular ground for invalidity used by U.S. tribunals is that the marriage consent is invalid because a party did not consent (with proper mental capacity c 1095.2) to the essential duties and properties of marriage, or one was not capable of fulfilling the essential duties/properties (c. 1095.3). If a party does not, in reality, consent to an essential property of marriage, or a party is incapable of upholding an essential property of marriage, then the party does not validly consent to marriage (c. 1095 & 1101). So, it is very important that we correctly understand the essential properties:
If the Popes 2019 Address to the Roman Rota is attempting to require as an essential element of marriage the harmony with the other, so that, through the exchange of their respective riches they become a single entity, he is contradicting Cardinal Raymond Burke, former Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Roman Rota and Defender of the Bond at the Signatura; the late Cardinal Edward Egan, former Roman Rota judge, professor at Pontifical Gregorian University, and one of six editors of the 1893 Code of Canon law; and Saint Pope John Paul II.
The 2019 Address to the Roman Rota is mixing up poetic language about marriage with canonical vocabulary. For example, two spouses cannot become one entity; it is impossible. Though, wed expect priests to use this poetic language in homilies or marriage preparation, it wreaks havoc when used to define requirements for validity.
In 2015, Ignatius Press published a book When Is Marriage Null? Guide to the Grounds of Matrimonial Nullity for Pastors, Counselors, and Lay Faithful by Paolo Bianchi, with a forward by Cardinal Raymond Burke. The word unity, as an essential property of marriage (per. canon 1056) does not refer to harmony, spiritual riches, and becoming a single entity. It is really simple: If one excludes unity, one intends to engage in sexual intercourse with other persons besides ones spouse (See page 125, When is the Marriage Null. by Bianchi).
Cardinal Egan warned about the problem of hinging validity on the spouses harmony. See his paper in the Scholarly Journal of the Roman Rota, The Nullity of Marriage for Reason of Incapacity to Fulfill the Essential Obligations of Marriage
The opening theme or premise having been exposed and developed, the author then moves on to drawing a series of conclusions from his and our discovery. And the conclusions, in a variety of formulations, come more or less to these : (1) The «merely physical» , «carnal» , even «animal» view of marriage which so long stalked the unhappy path of Catholic theological and canonical thinking has at last been abandoned; (2) In its place we are now to admit a more «spiritual» , «human» , and «personal» understanding of marriage in which the central issue is the relationship between the partners, their mutual fulfillment, «completion» , integration, and enrichment; (3) Hence, we are finally in a position to acknowledge that a marriage in which such a relationship has not been achieved or at least could not have been achieved in appropriate measure is invalid and susceptible of being declared such by tribunals of the Roman Catholic Church.
Faced with commenting on this kind of thing, one hardly knows where to begin. For not only is the premise false, there does not even seem to be any reason why the conclusions might flow from it were it other than false. (page 10)
If a poet pens, something of this sort, we may be charmed, just as if a pastor preaches something of this sort, we may be inspired. For the acts to which married people bestow upon each other a right are so intimate, human, and personal, that we can almost think of marriage as though it entailed a gift of the married couple themselves, one to the other. «Almost » , that is, poetically or rhetorically as opposed to philosophically, juridically, precisely.
Still, what is permitted the poet and the pastor is rightly denied among others the jurist, except, of course, when the jurist be a canonist who occasionally has the good sense to set aside his toga and ascend either Parnassus or the pulpit. (page 22)
Further writings on the canonical vocabulary on Marys Advocates HERE.
August 29, 2018 story, Dean Roman Rota, Msgr. Pinto: Freemason and Term Ended
Catholic divorce, Francis-style.
Ping
How about we address certain Catholic’s signing infanticide laws under the guise of “woman’s health”?
I’m disgusted the Church won’t do anything with Cuomo - at least deny Communion.
As for Northam in Va., guy used to work with terminally ill children and he is OK with abortion in the 9th month; even implied baby can be born, be “kept comfortable” while the Mother decides! Infanticide. We have laws that protect animals better than this. Grotesque!
Hey Francis - you are no Pope, you are the Anti-Pope.
Please, Bennedict, come back and reclaim yiur rightful position !
The last POPE?
https://www.newsmax.com/thewire/pope-francis-pontiff-nostradamus-stmalachy/2013/03/14/id/494661/
Also it's a stretch to say that because Jorge Bergoglio's dad was born in Portacomaro in the Piedmont, that qualifies Jorge to be "Peter of Rome." Does not compute. (His mother, Regina, was born in Buenos Aires--- not exactly a Roman suburb, either.)
I would, however, say that a Great Apostasy is predicted in a far more reliable source ---the New Testament--- and that's what we're seeing now: apostasy.
Over the years, Nostradamus followers have noted hundreds of instances where “The Centuries” describes modern events. One of the most widely known is Nostradamus’ supposed prediction of Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime. However, most are after the fact interpretations.
The present POPE IS OF ITALIAN HERITAGE, with a sense of authoritarianism based on his having been a Peronista.
Do I take the Prophesies and Quatrains as fact? NO! Do I believe what you believe, viz the Great Apostasy*** is just another interpretation.(***Remember, Muslims kill Apostates.) The Mayan calendar was misinterpreted, too.
Perhaps if you cited the Old Testament, I would be a believer.
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