Of course they didn’t. What a silly question.
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Oh for love of algore! People act like Henry VIII asking for an annulment was the first time it ever happened.
The Roman Catholic Church has a history of granting royal annulments on sometimes dubious legal grounds and they tend to be captious in their granting.
Let's consider what happened in 1152. Eleanor of Aquitaine and Poitou's marriage to Louis VII of France because she had given him two daughters and no heir.
The official reason was consanguinity which was the same grounds Henry VIII claimed.
She then, with the Catholic Church's blessing married Henry II who was every bit as closely related as she was to Louis.
Turned out it the problem was with the stallion not the mare as she went on to give sight children, five sons and three daughters and all of this was with the blessing of the Pope.
In 1499 Louis XII of France was granted an annulment on much shakier legal grounds with the goal of marrying another woman.
So while Henry VIII, nasty man that he was, makes a convenient whipping boy to act like what he did was unheard of is to ignore history.
Like it or not none of the grants or denials in any of these cases were based on any sort of firm Roman Catholic Church law but on the political leanings of the popes at the time.
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Great question.
If this heresy is allowed to happen, under the pretense of letting local bishops show “mercy”, it will be on Pope Francis and no one. Makes no mistake he’s the architect. He’s bound and determined to get his way, without actually changing doctrine. So he puts his liberal henchmen like Cupich and Kaspar in high level positions at the Synod, when both of them should be exiled to the furthest reaches of Siberia. They also want unrepentant, openly living in sin sodomites to receive communion, all in the name of “mercy”. Welcome to Francis World. Jesus weeps.
`Saint’ More burned his share of `reformist heretics’ while he was chancellor.
If a divorced person is remarried, he is committing adultery until he leaves his remarriage. If he does not, he is still committing adultery continuously by remaining in the state of continual desire for adultery. That being so, how can he receive communion in a state of sin? The whole question is ridiculous.
The bishops who postulated this cannot be thinking. The same is true in the case of homosexuality. If a man still considers to dabble in homosexual relationships, he continues to sin. There again, that person continues to live in sin and is not supposed to receive communion according to church rule.
Who even brought this up? Pope Francis? We have to look at both issues really hard. According to logic, both premises are ridiculous.
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Jesus had no problems saying it was adultery. I love my church but I cannot agree that those divorced and remarried should be able to accept the sacraments.
Good question. What we've learned since then, watching the parade of human folly, is that they didn't sacrifice their lives in error, either.
Someone up-thread was trying to make hay out of the idea that, over the centuries, judgments of nullity were at times bent by political considerations. I wouldn't be surprised. Interesting for the historian or the novelist, but irrelevant here. In moral terms, Henry's case wasn't a close one. It was as cold-blooded and venal as it was logically ridiculous.
As usual, there is a simple solution. German bishops have always chafed under Rome’s orthodoxy. Fine, let declare their heresy for all to hear. Then go their separate way. Catholicism has survived much worse and will survive this latest heresy.