Lets try and be reasonable here. Neither I nor the Church are the enemy.
I realize that it does not seem compassionate, but some times you need to look at these things dispassionately.
The Church has rules for a reason, we may not agree with them, and we may not like them, but we are required to follow them.
The Catholic Church is guided by the Holy Spirit in ALL things.
And lets not attack the messenger for explaining Why we have those rules.
I just wanted a clarification. I know a man who was rendered sterile 25 years ago because of radiation treatments for lymphoma, and I know a woman who has never married who is approaching menopause, and I just asked for verification that these two cannot, indeed, ever get married by a Catholic priest in a Catholic church.
That’s all...just, is it indeed true that no one who cannot bear or father children can ever be married in a Catholic church by a priest?
Ed
“The Catholic Church is guided by the Holy Spirit in ALL things.”
And therein lies the disagreement. Most (or at least many) do not believe this regulation to be of the Holy Spirit and do not believe the Roman Church speaks for the Holy Spirit.
That said, I have no doubt as to your sincerity, and encourage you to hold them as St. Paul told each of us to hold such denominational-specific beliefs.
Posted by a walking man married to a quadriplegic in a Catholic Hospital Chapel. Priest and Nuns in attendance giving it their blessings. A Baptist preacher did the officiation.
It was an act in obedience to the Will of GOD. To that I have no doubts whatsoever.
You think?
So will the Roman Church cease marrying women who have passed menapause?
And it is assinine rules such as this that caused me to leave the Catholic Church.
I may not be able to have children because of chemotherapy. So I guess that means I am doomed to be alone for my entire life.
Including covering up serial pedophilia in its Churches for decades I suppose....
L