It strikes me as haunting the way the poster commands us that ‘The Catechism agrees with’ her! I seem to recall the Pharisees using the same arrogant approach when they tried to trap Jesus over the woman taken in adultery and about to be stoned. They argue with Jesus that ‘Moses agrees with them’ ... and the response Jesus made was to stoop down and begin writing int he dust. We will never know what He was writing, but perhaps it was the names of consorts of these same Pharisees. Whatever He was writing, the mob slinked away, leaving Jesus to ask the woman ‘Where are your accusers?’ At least the Pharisees had the good sense to realize they had aligned themselves in such a way that they were demanding God agree with them, rather than they bowing to God’s Grace. The poster doesn’t seem to catch that nuance, yet.
Are you Catholic, MHGinTN?
Newt is, and I am. What makes you qualified to discuss what the Catholic church teaches on this issue.
I am not saying that those who are not Catholic are bound to the same rules that the Catholic church binds itself. Hardly.
Those who are not Catholic are free to practice divorce, gay marriage, whatever they want. They are not being held to the same standard as those within the Church.
So if you don’t like the Catechism, that’s fine, but those who are Catholic are supposed to abide by what the Catechism teaches.