Posted on 04/15/2016 1:50:20 AM PDT by markomalley
I know a guy who got two annulments like he was ordering a pizza.
they’re not that hard to get. Why not go down that road.
Hence it can no longer simply be said that all those in any ‘irregular’ situations are living in a state of mortal sin and are deprived of sanctifying grace.
Some just choose to ignore it and insist that Francis has not changed anything at all.
I think Damian Thompson needs to actually read the document, because the Pope did indeed devolve everything to the local or regional bishops and the “internal forum” ( meaning your “conscience” and the parish priest can tell you that whatever you want to do is cool) and that cultural and current understandings had to be considered. In other words, there really isn’t any objective morality and while the laws exist, they are merely ideals and suggestions.
So Francis did far worse - he undermined natural law, revealed law and the entire edifice of Christian morality. It’s really a matter of “if it feels good, do it,” and all of life is now just a striving to feel good.
Annulments have certain requirements (especially an existing situation at the time of the marriage) that aren’t easy to meet; when the spouse fights the annulment (as Ted Kennedy’s wife did) then it is even more difficult.
I suspect the divorced/remarried Catholics that want the ban lifted have already gone this route unsuccessfully.
Occurs to me: didn’t the prior pope step down, a rather unusual occurrence? Considering how the current one is racing Left, assorted conspiracy theories cine to mind...
Where’s the part about homosexual unions?
A very good friend of mine got an annulment. He told me if you got the $$$, you basically buy it and it doesn't take years of waiting.
Headline should read: The end of the Catholic Church.
He told me if you got the $$$, you basically buy it and it doesn’t take years of waiting.
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Reminds you of our government... No?
God and Gov! Yes they are for sale, always have been, always will be!
It's clear now that there is a deep and profound bitterness within Francis and it's a bitterness which he can not suppress, hence the almost daily outbursts. The bitterness is born of the realization that after half a century of the modernist onslaught, pockets of resistance.....pockets of stiff resistance, still remain.
Everything about Francis, his behavior, his words, his ridicule of those who love the Church and defend its laws, can be encompassed by one essential fact; he refuses to accept Jesus' Scriptural admonition that "the gate is narrow". This is Francis' fundamental non serviam. All his rage, all his outbursts can be explained by this; his desire to widen that gate. Hence, all the talk of "accompaniment", the issue of Communion for the divorced and civilly remarried, the ranting against those who defend fundamental and traditional Catholic Church law.......it's all essentially aimed at uprooting the gateposts and widening the gate.
On the other hand, a "good shepherd" will guide his sheep through that narrow gate or at least attempt to. This is a different model. The Francis shepherd "accompanies" while the sheep wander where they will then rages when they miss the gate to the sheep fold. He berates the "doctors of the law" who guard that gate and attempt to maintain it. The "good shepherd" is a different shepherd entirely.
None of this tortuous and scandalous Synod process was in any way necessary. Which parts of Familiaris Consortio were not clear to these faithless rogues? The whole thing was a transparent shell-game from beginning to end.
251. In discussing the dignity and mission of the family, the Synod Fathers observed that, "as for proposals to place unions between homosexual persons on the same level as marriage, there are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God's plan for marriage and family". It is unacceptable "that local Churches should be subjected to pressure in this matter and that international bodies should make financial aid to poor countries dependent on the introduction of laws to establish'marriage' between persons of the same sex".278
Notiuce the tagline, a quote from Jorge Bergoglio
If it's a slam-dunk "documentary" case (where a mere document shows that the first marriage was not valid) it could be very quick, whereas if it's a contested annulment which requires tracking down the respondent, translators, cross-examinations, etc. it could be a long time coming, and a favorable ruling is by no means certain.
The pope wasn't willing to compromise with King Henry VIII on this, even though it cost him England and pret-near the whole Anglosphere for the next 500 years.
You wish?
“It is evident that the pastoral practice of the Church cannot stand in opposition to the binding doctrine nor simply ignore it. In the same manner, an architect could perhaps build a most beautiful bridge. However, if he does not pay attention to the laws of structural engineering, he risks the collapse of his construction. In the same manner, every pastoral practice has to follow the Word of God if it does not want to fail. A change of the teaching, of the dogma, is unthinkable. Who nevertheless consciously does it, or insistently demands it, is a heretic – even if he wears the Roman Purple.”
—Cardinal Brandmuller
Brandmuller - AXIOS!
As I understand it, an “immaturity” loophole is used to grant unjustified annulments - as though anyone involved is fooling God...
Bravo
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