Are these the reasons for the divorce according to the Catholic Church teaching?

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  1. adultery and a new marriage of one of the parties,
  2. a spouse’s falling away from Orthodoxy,
  3. perversion,
  4. impotence which had set in before marriage or was self-inflicted,
  5. contraction of leprosy or syphilis,
  6. Code: 
     prolonged disappearance,
  7. Code: 
     conviction with disfranchisement,
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    encroachment on the life or health of the spouse,
  9. love affair with a daughter in law,
  10. profiting from marriage, profiting by the spouse’s indecencies,
  11. Code: 
    incurable mental disease
  12. malevolent abandonment of the spouse.
  13. chronic alcoholism or drug-addiction
    14 abortion.
 
Divorce is always objectively wrong, but it may be necessary as a civil law protection for the safety and legal rights of the spouse and children, and as such is acceptable. What is never allowed is remarriage after divorce, unless and until the marriage has been investigated and found to be invalid because of an impediment in natural law, in intent or consent, that existed at the time of the marriage (not anything that occured after the marriage). Some of the situations you list could very well prevent a valid marriage if present at the time of the contract.
 
landru.i-link-2.net/shnyves/grounds_annul.htm

This web page list gronds for the declaration of nullity and references the Canon(s) that apply. It also has several links that may be helpful.

It is a nice summary, but for more information or if you think you may have a case, contact a local priest or the Diocese tribunal office. I have found that the tribunal office can give more definition on the grounds for declaration of nullity.

your location is listed as Ukraine, so there may be some subtle differences, but in the U.S. “divorce” is a legal/civil declaration for the ending of a marriage. A declaration of nullity is an ecclesiastical process that determines that the marriage was not sacramental.
 
Those sound very much like the grounds for divorce in ORTHODOXY.
 
paradoxy said:
Those sound very much like the grounds for divorce in ORTHODOXY.
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Yes , You are right .
Its according to the Russian Orthodox Teaching.
I just want to compare it with the Catholic attitude towards divorce, because I do not know it actually.

I just know that God is the author of the Family, and the family is body or organism , according to the Church teaching and can not be separated .
I am interesting ,what are the reason for the divorce in case if there is reason for the divorce, according to the Catholic Church teaching ?
Thank You.
 
There is no such thing as divorce in Catholicism except:
  1. Dissolution of the unconsummated marriage for a serious reason by the Pope.
  2. Pauline privilege (getting baptised and the spouse remaining in a non-Christian faith doesn’t want to live with you anymore).
  3. Petrine privilege (you choose which wife to keep, if not the first one, if it’s too difficult to stay with the first one)
Please understand that it’s not like we allow divorce but not remarriage. We don’t allow divorce per se. The civil divorce is not a Catholic divorce. It doesn’t make a Catholic marriage divorced. Once again: the civil divorce does not end a Catholic marriage. It’s not just an impediment to a future marriage. The sacramental marriage survives a civil divorce. If it’s actually found null by the tribunal, then it has never been sacramental in the first place.

Civil divorce is allowed for the protection of self and/or children. But it doesn’t do anything to the sacramental existence or nonexistence of the marriage. A divorced person is still sacramentally married if the marriage is valid.
 
chevalier said:
There is no such thing as divorce in Catholicism except:
  1. Dissolution of the unconsummated marriage for a serious reason by the Pope.
  2. Pauline privilege (getting baptised and the spouse remaining in a non-Christian faith doesn’t want to live with you anymore).
  3. Petrine privilege (you choose which wife to keep, if not the first one, if it’s too difficult to stay with the first one)
Please understand that it’s not like we allow divorce but not remarriage. We don’t allow divorce per se. The civil divorce is not a Catholic divorce. It doesn’t make a Catholic marriage divorced. Once again: the civil divorce does not end a Catholic marriage. It’s not just an impediment to a future marriage. The sacramental marriage survives a civil divorce. If it’s actually found null by the tribunal, then it has never been sacramental in the first place.

Civil divorce is allowed for the protection of self and/or children. But it doesn’t do anything to the sacramental existence or nonexistence of the marriage. A divorced person is still sacramentally married if the marriage is valid.
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So from the mentioned 14 reasons , none of them can be applied to the Catholics ?
 
  1. Call the local Roman Catholic Diocesan offices and get the name of a canon lawyer in your area.
  2. Call the canon lawyer and get expert assessment of what constitutes grounds for annulment.
Should be fairly straightforward as the list you cite sounds pretty reasonable.

Matthew
 
drafdog said:
  1. Call the local Roman Catholic Diocesan offices and get the name of a canon lawyer in your area.
  2. Call the canon lawyer and get expert assessment of what constitutes grounds for annulment.
Should be fairly straightforward as the list you cite sounds pretty reasonable.

Matthew
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So the Canon Lawyer is not necessary a clergyman, right ?

The canon lawyer have no right to express opinion of the local church but to advise and instruct according to the Vatican teaching, right ?
 
Should be fairly straightforward as the list you cite sounds pretty reasonable.

I do not think that that list reasons are reasonable ,
I know for sure that adultery is not reason for the divorce, according to the Church teaching , and some of those reasons can not be used as a divorce reasons.
 
Divorce and remarriage is incompatible with the teachings of Christ.
Mark 10:11-12:
“Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”
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(Read the rest of the chapter for context.)

Jesus is clear: no divorce and remarriage.
 
Yes . I heard that in
Mathew 19:9 Jesus did not justify the divorce by the reason of adultery , as many Protestants and Evangelical think .

In original language , the word fornication is used not adultery.
In the jewish customs the engagement was very meaningful , so to leave a woman for the reason of fornication ( in Mathew 19:9 ) addressed to the engaged not married people.
For the married people - adultery is not justification for the divorce , and it is not allowed to leave the husband or wife with the reason of committed adultery by one of them.
 
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