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To: sitetest

Catholics have no problem with divorce.
Getting remarried is the hang up.


90 posted on 10/06/2020 11:28:06 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: skimbell

Not quite.

Traditional teaching is that civil divorce, even without remarriage, is to be avoided.

My grandmother divorced my grandfather. She needed to show extraordinary circumstances to get permission from the Church to continue to receive the Sacraments.

This was a very long time ago, but today’s attitude of “so long as you don’t remarry” is a novelty from the first 19 centuries of ordinary Catholic practice.


103 posted on 10/06/2020 12:42:11 PM PDT by sitetest (No longer mostly dead.)
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