Posted on 03/21/2005 8:27:13 AM PST by JosephW
Generally I agree with you about the money, however it appears his mistress wants a Catholic wedding. Personally I don't believe that he cares one way or the other about a church wedding, but she does.
The local bishop needs to make a statement that lets her know a church wedding won't happen!
Canon law stops him. The Vatican has made it clear that this action against Terri is unacceptable. Any bishop that would approve a wedding would be practicing outright disobedience to Rome by virtue of violating canon law.
"Is the RCC a serious part in what is happening to Teri?"
I hope not. This country needs no interference from the Vatican, who still have their own child-molestation issues to deal with.
We don't need the Vatican telling us how to do things. If anyone disagrees, remember that they also were against removing Saddam from power.
And would that outright disobedience surprise you or anyone else?
What do you want the Church to do?
With a divorce he would not be able to get remarried in the Church unless he receives a declaration of nullity for his first marriage.
It doesn't matter. If a bishop violates canon law (if it is indeed a violation of canon law, which it seems to be), the sacrament would be invalid. Society may see them as married in the Church, but the eternal reality is that they are not.
I don't think having the Bishop make a statement would make a difference either way...
No, it wouldn't. Every band of Apostles has its Judas.
I think if there's objection raised to such a wedding, the Church's legal process will handle it and it may be appealable all the way to Rome. I'm sure the situation has occurred before in Church history, but you'd need someone who knows the intricacies of canon law to flesh it all out.
How can a Catholic bishop excommunicate a Protestant? It doesn't make any sense.
I pretty much recognize you and soothing Dave as experts on the RCC. Is there anyway that he could receive an annulment? How about a civil divorce, could an annulment likely be granted due to grounds of a lack of consortium?
There has to be something hidden somewhere in Canon Law that has enough room to at least take away this part of his desire to see Teri dead.
Hopefully the Feds will be moving in soon.
Apparently his mistress wants to be married in the Church. Either that or she wants a "church wedding."
Yeah but it is ok by him to shack up with another woman and have two children with that other woman
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I think I have read that he is Lutheran, Terri is Catholic and jodi the mistress is also Catholic. Jodi wants a Catholic wedding so he can't be divorced, I guess she thinks the church will have no problem with him after he starves his wife and will gladly marry them. Hope the bishop in this jurisdiction has a firm backbone and says NO!
JosephW - Have you read any of my responses to you? There is NO WAY he will get married in the Church. None. Canon law would forbid it under the circumstances. Period. End of story.
I suspect he's not getting the divorce because sometime during the years involved, he decided it was better to hurt Terri and the Schindlers than to do this particular good thing.
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