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To: C. Edmund Wright
The example given was clearly a repentant person.

I just read the beginning of the article, but if a remarried person remains in a second marriage, and his original marriage was valid, and he is not living as brother and sister, then there is no objective evidence of repentance.

Now, individual cases can get very complicated, as in cases of conversion, where someone remarries for a second time in good conscience, before coming to understand the objective sinfulness of the second marriage. These cases represent pastoral gordian knots, especially with children involved.

85 posted on 11/04/2014 1:27:27 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
Dear St_Thomas_Aquinas,

It's a fairly short article after the jump. You might want to take a look.

However, I'll provide the spoiler. The couple, married before she converted, have submitted to the tribunal for a declaration of nullity, and the author states explicitly that she will abide the by judgment of the tribunal.

Thus, she is in a state of ambiguity, reasonably having the subjective view that her first marriage was not valid, but not yet having received a declaration of nullity. In my own opinion, she shows good faith in her approach to the matter of the sacraments.


sitetest

87 posted on 11/04/2014 1:35:27 PM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

yes, and then there’s the issue of unsaved spouses and thus unequally yoked marriages, etc. And let’s not forget Solomon, David, and numerous Old Testament men who led a very different life existence.


88 posted on 11/04/2014 1:41:41 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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