I think the one good would be that if and when they fall they will not feel alienated from where the true answers lay.
You should perhaps consider clipping and pasting this set of questions in the “apologetics forum”. It might be a more appropriate place for it.
You have a good point… so long as the catechesis is there. My cousin “Sue” married another lapsed Catholic at the courthouse… and now is convinced that because she is divorced, she cannot go to a Catholic Church.
If a Catholic wanted to marry a non-Catholic who has been divorced, the divorced spouse would need to go through the annulment process before he/she would be free to marry.
Though she is out of communion she is still welcome at the Church. Maybe just getting her there in the presance of Christ is the first hurdle. We can always invite and whose to say how she may be moved once there.
The cover looks changed since I saw it last but yes I believe that is it.
It’s nonsense, isn’t it?
If they realize the weren’t mature enough that in itself is noteworthy that they are now maturing.
Its not nonsense as this is the plight of many.
No, you have misunderstood something. The only reason it would go to Rome is if there were a tie vote at the local level. Rome always sides with the marriage in the case of a tie - but there was never a Declaration of Nullity in place, yet, at the time, so it’s not that they are “overturning” anything - it’s that there was a tie vote, and Rome always sides with the marriage, unless there is something really obvious that the local Tribunal overlooked (this is extremely unlikely, in most cases).Thank you for the web page. I’ve heard that most of the annulments granted by the American tribunals, when sent to Rome, are overturned. It’s all very disconcerting
I think there can also be an appeal where one party who feels there was a valid marriage is contesting.
What family today is 100% functional?
Tough question. A large amount of the ignorance that I had at the time was invincible. But, I had done many culpable sins in my life, and sin leads to hardness of heart, and I probably did have some hardness of heart lingering, even if at the time I wasn’t doing anything directly to promote it. IF I hadn’t done all those sins, perhaps my heart would have been more tender, and I might have read subtle discrepancies that passed me by in my sorry state. I was actively trying at the time of my marriage to cooperate with pre-cana and do what they asked. I wasn’t aware of refusing to do what they asked me to do. In fact, I managed to be aware of needing to do more than they asked me to do. I just had no idea how vastly more that happened to be.
I think people have a grave responsibility to prepare for marriage and to investigate their vocation. I don’t think that requires the type of investigation that an annulment requires. Rather, it requires things like refraining from dating until it is appropriate, developing chaste friendships, living a life of caring (or sacrificing) for others (like maybe your younger siblings), building your character, actively discerning your vocation (and being aware that there is a choice besides priest or married, that single is an option), pursing virtues and habits suitable to your vocation, studying the faith, etc.
I’m not quite ready to say “yes” to this question. I think it might depend on the level of certainty they have. If you find out your wife is keeping a string of previous husbands in other states and your marriage was illegal bigamy, then you are certain enough that you are invalidly married that you need to abstain and go talk to a priest and find out what to do next. At least, that’s what I’d imagine. I haven’t seen a document saying this.
This is difficult to say without knowing alot more info. I assume they are both baptized and want to make things right so I would tend to think vincible.
There are annulments that are dispensory in a manner of speaking. Such as for lack of canonical form. In such cases the process is not as in depth. They could find this out by presenting themselves to their priest.
Please go back again and read what I wrote. I do not disagree with the Church’s postion that all marriages are valid until proven invalid. But if it is invalid, there is no covenant.
I agree that marriage prep cannot teach all that is needed for a good marriage. But I suspect that some weddings might not happen, or might be postponed, if Church marriage prep was more rigorous.
This is painting with too broad a brush. The Church does in fact allow separation (i.e. civil divorce) for rather common reasons.