Priest divorce?

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willwhite07 said:
for the deaconate not lpmi,i am already in the lpmi
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That is diaconate and I finally took the time to do a search on Google for what lpmi is.

I found that it is the Lay Pastoral Ministry Institute and really has nothing to do with the question asked here, neither does the diaconate.

The question was, can a man who has an annullment enter the priesthood. The short answer is yes, the long answer is maybe depending on the diocese or religious order/community.

When bringing up this sort of thing, lpmi, it is good if you tell us what you are talking about rather than making us hunt for the information. Otherwise you risk us not paying attention to anything you have to say.
 
sorry,i only was curious.didnt mean to make you do anything,if i could erase the thread i would,ill pray for your strength,have a good morn
 
willwhite07 said:
sorry,i only was curious.didnt mean to make you do anything,if i could erase the thread i would,ill pray for your strength,have a good morn
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I think it would be a good idea if you started a new thread on the lpmi thing.

This is the first I have heard about it and I think it would be great to inform people about this option.

Can you please start a thread to explain what it is and what your experience with it has been?
 
I would like to get some assistance regarding my case.
I’m Catholic and got married in the Church in 2005 for the wrong reasons.
I used the sacrament of marriage as an escape goat to my problems in my own family.
I married someone who I met on the internet and she was pregnant at that time.
The father of the child was only a student and could not afford to marry her.
I felt sorry for her and married her after two months from meeting her on the internet.
She could not tell her parents that she was married because her boyfriend for seven years left her and married another woman.
She got into a one night stand with a student and in despair thus making her pregnant.
I had my own problems with my parents.
I decided to marry her and took the child as my own & never told anybody about that truth thinking that I would be escaping my own problems by establish a family of my own.
When we got married everybody thought that the child was mine until I could no longer hide the truth and urged her to tell the truth to her parents on Holy Thursday of 2006.
She does not want to tell the truth to her parents so we got into a fight.
I had to drag her to let her mother know about what happened. She felt betrayed because she thought we would be forever hiding the truth.
We’re already separated for more than two years now and we just lived together for eight months.
I have no money for annulment yet so we are just separated physically.
I would like to enter priesthood. I think this is my real calling.
Could I still be eligible for this?
I like to serve the Lord as a priest and pray to Him day and night.
I don’t have my eyes set anything on this world except Him.
 
RonnelS said:
I would like to get some assistance regarding my case.
I’m Catholic and got married in the Church in 2005 for the wrong reasons.
I used the sacrament of marriage as an escape goat to my problems in my own family.
I married someone who I met on the internet and she was pregnant at that time.
The father of the child was only a student and could not afford to marry her.
I felt sorry for her and married her after two months from meeting her on the internet.
She could not tell her parents that she was married because her boyfriend for seven years left her and married another woman.
She got into a one night stand with a student and in despair thus making her pregnant.
I had my own problems with my parents.
I decided to marry her and took the child as my own & never told anybody about that truth thinking that I would be escaping my own problems by establish a family of my own.
When we got married everybody thought that the child was mine until I could no longer hide the truth and urged her to tell the truth to her parents on Holy Thursday of 2006.
She does not want to tell the truth to her parents so we got into a fight.
I had to drag her to let her mother know about what happened. She felt betrayed because she thought we would be forever hiding the truth.
We’re already separated for more than two years now and we just lived together for eight months.
I have no money for annulment yet so we are just separated physically.
I would like to enter priesthood. I think this is my real calling.
Could I still be eligible for this?
I like to serve the Lord as a priest and pray to Him day and night.
I don’t have my eyes set anything on this world except Him.
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It all depends on getting an annulment.

If you get one then maybe where you apply will accept you but not everywhere will accept you.

Do you have any children?

When the child was born, that she was pregnant with when you married, was you name put on the birth certificate?

If so then you are responsible for this child legally and no diocese or religious order/community will take you until the child turns 18. You would need to get a good lawyer and in your civil divorce prove that the child is not yours to get your legal responsibility removed.
 
what if he was married in a Catholic Church, and then got divorced man but have kids from his previous marriage, can he still become priest?
 
confusedduchess said:
what if he was married in a Catholic Church, and then got divorced man but have kids from his previous marriage, can he still become priest?
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No.

He would have to receive an anullment. That is there must be a declaration by the Church that no sacramental marriage was present.

If he did receive an declaration of nullity then most likely, he would not be considered as a candidate for priesthood until his children reached the age of majority (18 years old).
 
I have had a pastor was was divorced. Not sure about an anullment. But He was born in 1930, ordained in 1955 by the Pope. He had 1 daughter, and a step son in the marriage. Is ex wife remained single and raised them.

Apparently he made the wrong decisions when he was younger and got married right away, untill he felt the call to the priesthood. Which he was a good pastor. He is retired now and lives in Florida.

His younger brother who is a retired priest lives in a house across the road from the rectory. Very nice family
 
This is a multistep process. It is not a matter of getting a decree of nullity so one can become a priest, become remarried, become whatever… It is a matter of one gets a decree of nullity because one’s marriage is invalid or one does not get a decree of nullity because one’s marriage is valid. What one discerns to do with that after is a whole other story.
 
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