Is divorce a sin

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MtnDwellar said:
Anyway. Here is one source: archden.org/tribunal/documents/divorce.htm

The Catechism of the Catholic Church Defines Divorce

Divorce is a grave offense against the natural law. It claims to break the contract, to which the spouses freely consented, to live with each other until death. Sacramental marriage is the sign of the covenant of salvation, to which divorce does incredible injury. Contracting a new union, even if it is recognized by civil law, adds to the gravity of the rupture: the remarried spouse is then in a situation of public and permanent adultery. If a husband, separated from his wife, becomes involved with another woman, he is an adulterer because he makes that woman commit adultery; and the woman who lives with him is an adulteress, because she has drawn another’s husband to herself.[2]

Furthermore, the Catechism states that divorce is immoral because “it introduces disorder into the family and into society. This disorder brings grave harm to the deserted spouse, to children traumatized by the separation of their parents and often torn between them, and because of its contagious effect which makes it truly a plague on society.”[3]
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As the Church requires that a civil divorce be obtained before the commencement of the annullment process, your position would be that the Church is requiring the couple to do something immoral?
 
Yes, divorce is a sin, a very grave sin. God himself states in the bible, “I HATE DIVORCE! I cannot stand a man who would be that cruel to his wife.” In the words of the Beloved and Holy Writ and is repeated in countless Catholic marriages worldwide, "WHAT GOD HAS JOINED TOGETHER, LET MAN NOT PUT ASUNDER."
 
Tarpeian_Rock said:
As the Church requires that a civil divorce be obtained before the commencement of the annullment process, your position would be that the Church is requiring the couple to do something immoral?
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Apparently so…🤷

Gonna sleep on it.
 
It is important in discussing this matter for all to read the entire text of the Catechism.

All the various aspects are there. It can yes be sinful . And yes there can also be legit “legal” recourse for certain legal (etc) purposes (while recognizing that a divorce does not end an actual marriage…the union continues…unless the union is found to never have taken place)
 
Tarpeian_Rock said:
As the Church requires that a civil divorce be obtained before the commencement of the annullment process, your position would be that the Church is requiring the couple to do something immoral?
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As I said in my first post, the Church allows for innocent parties in divorces. An innocent party of a divorce is not doing anything immoral.
 
MtnDwellar said:
As I said in my first post, the Church allows for innocent parties in divorces. An innocent party of a divorce is not doing anything immoral.
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And as I stated in one of the replies that was removed just because one of the spouses seeks and obtains a divorce does not mean that that spouse is guilty of the divorce or of doing anything immoral, they may actually be the innocent party in the divorce.
 
ByzCath said:
And as I stated in one of the replies that was removed just because one of the spouses seeks and obtains a divorce does not mean that that spouse is guilty of the divorce or of doing anything immoral, they may actually be the innocent party in the divorce.
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Agree 👍
 
I beleive that marriage is forever., because the vows you took was between you and GOD,S eyes. remember marriage is to death do you part,so even if you don,t get involded with someone, you are still bond in the eyes of God.and if you get involded with someone than you are coming a great sin.
 
The Church doesn’t so much “require a person to get divorced” in order to petition for nullity, as it seeks to insure that the marriage is irreparably broken before beginning an investigation. In the US, the best indication we have of this is a finalized civil divorce.
 
I’m assuming that the OP is asking “Is (civil) divorce a sin?”.

If so, the answer is “depends on the circumstances”.

Civil divorce is not sinful under circumstances of abuse where one spouse needs, in legal sense, to be separated from their spouse.

If the OP is asking whether Catholic ecclesial divorce is a sin, it’s a moot point, since there either was a marriage good for life or not. As has been pointed out, a valid marriage is good for the life of the spouse until the other one dies; there is no such thing as a “church” divorce.
 
Well according to Jesus it is a sin to re-marry unless your spouse has died.
 
MtnDwellar said:
I am not familiar with this term. What is ecclesial divorce?
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Do Catholics have ecclesial divorce? I know the Orthodox do, and I know occasionally marriages can be dissolved, but is it called divorce?
 
MtnDwellar said:
I am not familiar with this term. What is ecclesial divorce?
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I don’t know if there’s such an “official” term, but what I mean is a “church divorce” or a divorce that is not a civil divorce. i.e. one can get a civil divorce, but as far as the RCC is concerned, if the marriage was valid in the first place, it is not worth the paper that it is printed on in terms of whether or not a couple is married or not.
 
EvelynEVF said:
Do Catholics have ecclesial divorce? I know the Orthodox do, and I know occasionally marriages can be dissolved, but is it called divorce?
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Roman Catholics, no. A couple is either validly married or not, until one of the partners dies.
 
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