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To: Jeff Chandler
What if the pastor or the counselor believes that adultery is not always wrong?

Just about everyone believes adultery is wrong..even the ones doing it deep down(for the most part).

That being said though on a Catholic thread do you believe people who remarry are committing adultery?

27 posted on 06/04/2012 11:20:56 AM PDT by trailhkr1 (All you need to know about Zimmerman, innocent = riots, manslaughter = riots, guilty = riots)
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To: trailhkr1
"That being said though on a Catholic thread do you believe people who remarry are committing adultery?"

Yes. Marriage is not simply a civil agreement between two persons, it is also a sacrament and a vocation. A marriage creates a real spiritual institution that is separate from the parties involved. A Catholic marriage requires that both parties love that institution more than they love their spouse and certainly more than they love themselves. Unfortunately, to the detriment of the Church and those involves, that is not made clear often enough.

A Catholic marriage, once formed and instituted, survives as long as both of the spouses are alive. Unless nullified, meaning that the marriage never happened, any remarriage while either of the spouses is alive is adultery.

Peace be with you.

28 posted on 06/04/2012 11:42:00 AM PDT by Natural Law (Jesus did not leave us a Bible, He left us a Church.)
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To: trailhkr1
Just about everyone believes adultery is wrong..even the ones doing it deep down(for the most part).

I posited the proposition that one of the conditions for consulting with Catholic clergy for advice on sexual ethics within marriage is the belief in universal truths. If one arrives as his ethics apart from that belief, there would be no point in doing so.

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That being said though on a Catholic thread do you believe people who remarry are committing adultery?

According to Catholic teaching which claims to be informed by the universal truths taught by Jesus, a man who is married in the Church commits adultery with any union outside that marriage.

I believe the teaching of the Catholic Church. You may not, and the purpose of my post was not to engage in apologetics but rather to clarify the conditions under which consultation with Catholic clergy in these matters would be logical.

30 posted on 06/04/2012 1:22:01 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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