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To: Steelfish

Are you even a Catholic? Do you not believe in Christ’s teaching on the indissolubility of marriage until the death of one spouse?

Do you condone adultery?


64 posted on 10/18/2015 12:39:51 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide

By your lights I guess even the Pope is not Catholic!
Here’s the issue. It’s not about adultery. If that were the case, Christ would have not extended the Divine Encounter to the much-married Samaritan woman. There are all kinds of “adultery.”
For example, Matthew 5:28 recites “But *I* say unto you, that every one who looks upon a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” And yet there is forgiveness for adultery.

The re-married Catholic cannot be denied the Divine Encounter regardless of circumstances. This is why we have annulments. The process is costly, time-consuming, and has the qualities of a trial by jury. Annulments are not just for the rich and well-connected.

We have a universal Church that extends to the peripheries of our society. The re-married Catholic cannot be told that he/she can accept the invitation to the Divine Banquet but is barred from Life-Giving Eucharistic food and be apartheid to the back of the Church. His only option then is (a) to disown the second marriage and live like brother and sister notwithstanding the fact that they may have children from this second marriage; (b) simply attend the Mass as nothing more than a ritual exercise ; or (c) be condemned to join a Protestant heretical sect that does not believe in the Holy Eucharist.

None of these options are realistic.

That you constantly keep posting stuff here that denigrates the Vicar of Christ and holds up to to ridicule any attempt at pastoral reconciliation makes me run back the question “Are you even a Catholic,” on yourself.


104 posted on 10/18/2015 3:49:05 PM PDT by Steelfish
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