Forgive me for doubting his Catholic faith, but all I remember about the guy is how he wouldn’t marry the mother of his child! He ultimately DID marry her (this being his second wife), but four years after the baby was born! I remember reading how the woman was devastated and her situation was taking a toll on her health.
From Wikipedia: “In 1994, Brosnan met American journalist Keely Shaye Smith in Mexico. In 2001, at Ballintubber Abbey in County Mayo, Ireland, they married.[1][66] They have two sons together, Dylan Thomas Brosnan (birth 13 January 1997) and Paris Beckett Brosnan (birth 27 February 2001).”
I’m not being judgmental; I just felt bad for the woman and don’t see how a man of faith would do such a thing to her.
I don’t know the situation, but if they wanted to be married in the Catholic Church, and she had been married before, they might have needed to wait until she obtained an annulment of her previous marriage.
It works both ways. Keely Shaye Smith had no business bearing the children of a man to whom she was not married. You may find the story of St. Margaret of Cortona interesting.
Soon Margaret found herself installed in the castle, not as her master's wife, for convention would never allow that, but as his mistress, which was more easily condoned. Some day, he had promised her, they would be married, but the day never came. A child was born, and with that Margaret settled down to the situation.
I don’t know any of those circumstances, just don’t know who’s with whom in that celeb culture. I do, however, have little sympathy for a grown woman who allows herself to become pregnant by a man to whom she’s not married, and equally little sympathy for a man who impregnates a woman he is not willing and anxious to marry. They’re both very selfish and foolish
Maybe he took the sacrament of Marriage so seriously that he had to resolve some issues with her— or maybe he was unsure about her in some way. Maybe he was hoping she’d convert. There are a lot of reasons he might have been waiting. Maybe he wasn’t sure he could love her as much as his first wife.
From another perspective: why compound the mistake of having an out-of-wedlock child by asking God to bless the union with a mother you are not 100% about? In marriage, we are making a vow with God as the third partner in the union. Maybe he had doubts and was unwilling to take that step until he watched her be a mother for a while.
Maybe he was putting his love of his faith before his love for the woman in this case. Luckily, we don’t have to judge him— God does that!