Posted on 12/15/2009 3:47:50 PM PST by NYer
I missed the last canon, but yeah, you are correct I think.
LOL. Well, it doesn't need the money, but it's always nice to pad the coffers.
Funny how the papacy presumes it controls people's lives even after they've fled the interview, by the grace of God.
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Yes, and another one would be Glenn Beck — baptized as a Catholic, but now practicing the Mormon mindset.
I don’t really know what to say to that except it’s pathetic.
I suppose it’s a way to pull the naive back into their cult.
I'm not sure how you think something that makes it easier to get an annulment would make the church more money, but I guess in the upside-down world of "Rome is always wrong," it must make sense.
Somehow.
You get the idea that a lot of people have no clue just what an annulment involves. The money is the least of it.
(Actually, you could have just stopped after “clue”. ;-))
I know from 1st hand experience annulments are not to be taken lightly. Still, I am VERY thankful to Gof for the decree of nullity I received.
Actually, I think it's a way to keep marriage tribunals from having to reconstruct whether Joe was really a Lutheran when he married Sarah, or whether he was still a Catholic.
But, whatever floats yer boat.
Anyway, I think all that labeling stuff is passe and inane. It serves a very limited function.
Funny definition I heard tonight: Charismatic Catholicism = Pentecostalism with sacraments.
Most Catholics received several more Sacraments along the way, after their Baptisms, and the others were as older children or young adults, when they knew what was going on. The Church has always taught that civil marriages are invalid, because they are not Sacramental. I don't see anything new in this statement.
And, as I'm sure you probably well know, the Church doesn't do annulments for the money. Any fee charged for an annulment is for the administrative costs of the process.
“The church doesn’t do annulments for the money”
This is true. But it provides a good item for more skewering of the Church by those who hold Catholicism in contempt (which gets tiresome and repetitve on these threads and is counter-productive to changing the minds of practicing Catholics).
And we should be thankful, therefore, for that little cross.
No, I'm not there yet either.
Why do they do them? By what authority??
As for cost..of course they make money..the people often have too hire "lawyers "( through the church of course) to make their argument or to fight the proceedings
“the people often have too (sic) hire “lawyers”
Hmmm, this is true....simply because you say so?
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Not to worry, Mark. I’m not afraid of crosses, big or small, for “I can do all things in Him who strengthens me”.
God bless.
And this is the problem, the Roman Catholic Church teaching that it is the provider and distributor of the Grace of God.
It is merely the avenue. It is built upon Jesus Christ’s commission to the Apostle Peter.
The marriages are irregular. They can be regularized validated retroactively if the parties wish by returning to the Church and retracing their steps to have a valid marriage cermeony to make up for what was lacking in the form and minister of the first ceremony. Otherwise, the marriage remains invalid.
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