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Cardinals join to defend Church doctrine on divorce, remarriage
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com ^ | September 8, 2014 | Elise Harris

Posted on 09/09/2014 8:52:34 AM PDT by NKP_Vet

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To: RitaOK

The celibacy requirement is something which needs to be reviewed.

It certainly does not apply to all Catholic priests. Priests in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, for example are permitted to be married as are married priests who came over from the Episcopalian Church.

There is absolutely NOTHING in the Bible mandating compulsory clerical celibacy.

Also, as Pope Francis has pointed out, celibacy is a discipline, not a doctrine and the policy is also subject to change. The Pope also pointed out that the policy was initiated many centuries after the founding of the Church.


21 posted on 09/09/2014 11:05:39 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: NKP_Vet

Won’t matter, Kasper has the Pope’s ear, it will change.


22 posted on 09/09/2014 11:07:22 AM PDT by xone
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To: xone

Wanna bet?


23 posted on 09/09/2014 11:09:03 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: RitaOK

A lot of times proving your case involves asking your children to testify against one of their parents.

That is a bridge too far for a lot of people.


24 posted on 09/09/2014 11:09:21 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: NKP_Vet

About thirty days to find out, been in the works for over 30 years easily sold as mercy and compassion. We shall see.


25 posted on 09/09/2014 11:11:25 AM PDT by xone
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To: yldstrk

Even if your marriage has not been annulled, if you are divorced not remarried there is no bar to receiving Communion.


26 posted on 09/09/2014 11:20:17 AM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: RitaOK

+1


27 posted on 09/09/2014 11:22:46 AM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: Bigg Red

Yes. Agreed.


28 posted on 09/09/2014 12:04:48 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: DuncanWaring

Yes agreed


29 posted on 09/09/2014 12:05:52 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

the money will not stop the annulment, he just doesn’t want to do it so he is living in adultery


30 posted on 09/09/2014 12:07:17 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: oldbill

Bullshout.


31 posted on 09/09/2014 12:25:29 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Cordially.)
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To: Da Coyote

This is sad, and profoundly wrong-headed. It is abandoning Christ because of Judas.


32 posted on 09/09/2014 12:27:49 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Cordially.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog; RitaOK
A lot of times proving your case involves asking your children to testify against one of their parents. That is a bridge too far for a lot of people.

That's baloney. An annulment proceeding is an examination of the conditions present at the time of the wedding. What happened afterward is irrelevant to the question of whether the marriage itself was valid. There is no reason that anyone would need to "testify against" someone else. They only thing "on trial" is the validity of the marriage itself. Assuming that the children were born after the wedding, nothing they would personally be able to testify about would be relevant.

33 posted on 09/09/2014 1:58:28 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus
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To: yldstrk

Annulment is one of those slick, back alley deals that are OK, as long as Rome get appropriately compensated.


34 posted on 09/09/2014 2:04:10 PM PDT by Gamecock (Not responsible for errors resulting from posting via my "smart" phone.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

The Church brings no harm to innocents in the case of an investigation and is strictly business, free of accusation, innuendo and high drama. Mostly the Tribunal must verify dates and times and addresses and contacts witness who can confirm the basic information given them by the petitioner as relates to records.

The petioner recommends witnesses, and also the Tribunal accesses church records for support of the petitioner. Who, what, where, when, and why and how sorts of questions.

Someone from the Tribunal is also appointed to argue against granting the annulment, so that both sides of a petitioners case may be argued in the face of the evidence and the narrow criteria for granting annulments for a full and fair hearing.


35 posted on 09/09/2014 3:12:16 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: Gamecock

Slander slop.

Nourished on anomalies and scandals, your gumshoe examples and the periods of some abuses over the course of centuries prove of yourself to have no respect for, and no interest in appreciating the Holy Sacrament of Matrimony, ( there are only seven Holy Sacraments) but prefer to feed only on the examples of failed protections of the Holy Sacrament.

How classless your motives and bovine your braying.


36 posted on 09/09/2014 3:26:41 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: Da Coyote

Please come back, Da Coyote!


37 posted on 09/09/2014 4:06:23 PM PDT by MDLION ("Trust in the Lord with all your heart" -Proverbs 3:5)
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To: RitaOK

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.


38 posted on 09/09/2014 4:51:34 PM PDT by Gamecock (Not responsible for errors resulting from posting via my "smart" phone.)
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To: Gamecock

sometimes


39 posted on 09/09/2014 4:57:20 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: RitaOK
bovine your braying.

Cows don't bray.

40 posted on 09/09/2014 7:52:06 PM PDT by xone
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