Sanation and sexual immorality

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Can someone explain to me what sanation is? Is the Church compromising with sexual immorality?

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Michael
 
mikeledes said:
Can someone explain to me what sanation is?
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Radical sanation is a process of convalidating a marriage without the parties giving a new statement of consent. It is used in specific cases according to canon law.

You can read an explanation here.
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Is the Church compromising with sexual immorality?
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What an odd question. Why would you ask a question such as this?
 
What an odd question. Why would you ask a question such as this?
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I ask this because the way it was explained to me sounded like a compromise.

According to what I was told, if two unmarried persons were in a committed marriage like relationship, they can receive Holy Communion. Is that true?

God Bless,
Michael
 
I have received a sanation and here is my experience.

The situation:
I am a Catholic convert, a for atheist.
I was about to be confirmed.
I was married (at the time).
My wife remained an atheist.
Our marriage was civil and not blessed by the Church.
My wife refused to participate in having the marriage blessed by the Church.
Until my marriage could be blessed, I could not receive Holy Communion except the one time on the day of my Confirmation.

Because we were married civily, but my wife, for religious reasons, refused to participate in a Catholic ceremony of any kind, the church grangted me Sanation. Basically they blessed my marriage because consent to marry could be inferred from the civil marriage. I believe the fact that I was also a convert had something to do with the requirement as well.

By the way, my wife divorced me saying we could reconcile only if I quit going to church.

In hindsight, isome have said it would have been better not to get a Sanation. I could see the divorce looming because of my conversion and now I have to go through the whole nullification process. If not for the Sanation, it would be very quick.

While it may be quicker, I do not agree that it would have been better not to get the Sanation. I sincerely wanted to hold my marriage together. Despite the fact that love turned to hate within hours of me telling her that I went to church for the first time, I wanted to try to save it. I made a comittment. When we got married we both thought that divorce, while generally undesireable, was always an option. Now as a Catholic, I could not think that way. The Sanation made me try harder. That I ultimately failed is not important.
 
So sanation can only apply to marriages outside the Church, not to two people living in a committed, but unmarried, realtionship?

Thanks and God Bless,

Michael
 
mikeledes said:
So sanation can only apply to marriages outside the Church, not to two people living in a committed, but unmarried, realtionship?

Thanks and God Bless,

Michael
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quite right, because naturally since no marriage, civil or otherwise has taken place, no consent has been exchanged, therefore the action–sanation–to recognize consent cannot occur.

just as a point of English language usage there is no such thing as a committed relationship outside marriage as it refers to two people who are cohabiting for, among other reasons, enjoyment of sexual relations. Marriage is the act by which such a commitment is made, and if there is no marriage, there is no commitment, regardless of what either party assumes about the relationship.
 
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quite right, because naturally since no marriage, civil or otherwise has taken place, no consent has been exchanged, therefore the action–sanation–to recognize consent cannot occur.

just as a point of English language usage there is no such thing as a committed relationship outside marriage as it refers to two people who are cohabiting for, among other reasons, enjoyment of sexual relations. Marriage is the act by which such a commitment is made, and if there is no marriage, there is no commitment, regardless of what either party assumes about the relationship.
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👍 Yep. Well said.
 
Thank you for the clarification. What the person told me about sanation sounded very wrong to me. I just wanted confirmation that it was wrong.

Thanks,
Michael
 
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