Posted on 10/25/2016 7:47:21 AM PDT by ebb tide
Legal fiction?
If you enter into a contract with a person who intended to deceive you, is that contract still valid? The proper minister of the sacrament of marriage are the man and woman themselves. If one of the spouses entered into it fraudulently or ignorantly, no valid sacrament was effected despite all the externals, kinda like if you go into the confessional and lie to the priest.
The principle behind annulment is sound. Now if you are going to complain that bishops watered down those principles to get Catholic divorce through the back door, that’s a different story.
In my opinion, with the caveat that I ain’t God so I don’t know absolutely her soul? Pelosi is arguably in the state of hardened and unrepentant mortal sin. If I were her bishop she’da been excommunicated with bell book and candle, much less refused Communion. Like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnxJyEF4qLE
So the Scripture isn’t all inspired by the Word Incarnate, thanks for clearing that up by admitting you’re not Christian.
Exactly.
I just remember what Jesus Christ said in Matthew chapter 19.
I agree that is at least 75% of the reason the other 25% being those in the hierarchy who avowed Americanists, Modernists, or just titmice who are in reality no different than Luther who also claimed he was saving the "real" Church from the evil hierarchy by starting his own little club.
A few weeks ago I was looking through several books trying to match up some things and it seems to me decline in attendance has grown in nearly perfect lock step with the increase in the divorce rate. All the noise from heretics is just their misdirection campaign to hide the fact that they're contradicting Church Dogma and are therefore heretics.
That's the same "because we love the sheep" sort of misdirection Hesburgh used when he claimed he stole Notre Dame from the Church to make sure it was a better University to keep people from noticing that doing so would get him nice fat grants and endowments from the very same people who were funding Margaret Sanger's constant crusade against the Catholic Church and thirty years earlier had funded KKK anti-Catholic publications, rallies, and speaking tours.
Regards
What about when a spouse passes?
The marital contract ends upon the death of one of the spouses—the other party (sorry to put it horrendously crudely) being no longer able to fulfill it.
So the widow or widower is then free to remarry.
+1
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