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To: Mrs. Don-o
The "option" of going to another parish where nobody knows them, is just an evasion. I'm sure people do this, and that's down to their own conscience, I suppose (what the Church calls the "internal forum") However, the Holy See has ruled out the internal forum solution as a valid way of resolving marital validity questions. Such issues must be submitted to the Church's canonical processes (a marriage tribunal).

I think you may have misunderstood my post. I was not suggesting evasion or "internal forum". The point of going to another church is to avoid causing scandal at their present church where their situation is known (only if they chose the Josephite marriage option, of course).

Do you --- seriously--- think relying on the "internal forum", already excluded as a solution by the Holly See, is to be preferred to a reform of the marriage law in which their pastor could make a Declaration of Nullity under certain circumstances?

Of course not. And a "reform" of the marriage law that effectively undermines the Sacrament doesn't seem like a good idea either.

For Sally to impose this on her husband unilaterally would be a violation of the spousal debt

Perhaps if he were actually her "husband" that would be relevant. However in the eyes of the Church that is not the case.

43 posted on 03/02/2014 12:37:55 PM PST by BlatherNaut
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To: Mrs. Don-o

“Benedict XIV in his famous Dei Miseratione, introduced into matrimonial judgments, the principal of a double and equitable, judiciary decision. This praxis guards the search for the truth, guarantees the outcome of a just trial, and demonstrates the importance which the Church attributes to the Sacrament of Marriage and its indissolubility. Kasper’s proposal places in cause the objective judgment of the ecclesiastical tribunal, which would be substituted by a ordinary priest no longer called on to safeguard the good of marriage, but to satisfy the needs of individual consciences.”

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44 posted on 03/02/2014 1:47:23 PM PST by BlatherNaut
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