[ebb tide]

It (the Sixth Commandment) cannot even serve to justify easily the indissolubility of marriage, but on the contrary assumes a right to divorce that also existed in Israel.”

[onedoug]

Seems this Cardinal is taking a lot of chances with his flock’s souls.

[BwanaNdege]

The whole point of the 10 Commandments is to serve as a yardstick, an immutable standard , to measure our own grandiose notions of righteousness against God’s standard.

“There is none righteous; no, not one.” Romans 3:10.

The Law is to show us that we ALL need a Savior.

“I’m OK, and you are not so bad” tends to put us on cruise control with regard to our attitude toward our relationship with a holy God.

God has given marriage and the sexual relationship within as a magnificent blessing - if both receive it as from God. Rejection of this is spitting in God’s face, telling Him, “You do not really love me.”

Fornication and adultery tell God that we do not trust Him to provide for all of our needs (not necessarily all of our “wants”.)

[SkyDancer]

Considering the responses, comment number 2 removed by the moderator must have been a doozy.

[PLMerite]

Executive Summary: What am I, a single guy, allowed to get away with?

[Bigg Red]

Prayers up for Holy Mother Church.

[heterosupremacist]

"... the Ten Commandments, like all rules and laws, respond to specific social challenges and are products of their time. In order to clarify the original intention of the Sixth Commandment, it is necessary to consider the context in which it was born.” This is the sort of thing that really makes me want to SCREAM! GRRR! This nothing less than sophistry from a pseudo-intellectual imbecile! This is essentially the same argument the 'gun grabbers' use when they claim the U.S. Constitution is a living document. "The Second Amendment does not apply to modern weapons, because the Founders could not conceive of semi automatic weapons." Doesn't he believe the sacred scriptures to be Divinely inspired, and inerrant? Maybe God was wrong about this, and maybe the Magisterium and the CCC need my brilliant interpretation of the Commandments to correct their errors? ... Audacity re-defined!

[miele man]

Wow! Do you have a link for this article? Thank you.