Science, Faith, and Gender

[Richca]

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“Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind” (Romans 12:2). Our bodily feelings and passions can be directed to either good or evil. We direct them to either good or evil by our spiritual faculties of the intellect and will. We direct them to good when we do so according to right reason in accord with our nature, God’s will and his commandments, which is for our own good and happiness. We direct them to evil and sin when we go against right reason and our nature, God’s will and his commandments, which is our own undoing, unhappiness, and not for the purpose God created us.

 

[thistle]

The Church teaches that civil divorce is always gravely wrong

Where does the Church teach this?

 

[OraLabora]

Where does the Church teach this?

From the CCC:

2384 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 till death. Divorce does injury to the covenant of salvation, of which sacramental marriage is the sign. 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, approaches 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.

 

[thistle]

2384 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 till death. Divorce does injury to the covenant of salvation, of which sacramental marriage is the sign. 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, approaches 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.

Thanks. However, a couple could get divorced and neither be in a state of mortal sin, unless they remarry of course.

 

[OraLabora]

Correct, and although one may bear mortal culpability for the grave sin of divorce, it can be confessed and absolved. The Church also recognizes that one may be the innocent party in a divorce, e.g. abandonment, victim of abuse, etc.

Remarriage is where it gets problematic.