[ninenot]

When the former wife found a new man, she insisted she would never go through another marriage ceremony but would just live with her lover and bear his children. "More honest than the Catholic Church," she said to everyone who would listen. Frankly, I think she was right.

Madprof, are we to believe that you ENDORSE this woman's fornication?

[madprof98]

Uh . . . no, OF COURSE NOT. But I think she was right to say that it is more honest to live openly in sin than to pretend that a sacramental marriage can be dissolved because one of the parties gets the hots for a new babe.

[FITZ]

Madprof, are we to believe that you ENDORSE this woman's fornication?

If she believes her marriage was legitimate then she would also believe her husband is fornicating even though he's married in the Church and that the Church sanctions his fornication.

To me it seems even more hurtful to someone who wanted their marriage to go on to not only have to accept a civil divorce but then to have the Church turn around and say they were never married in the first place.