Should I attend the Wedding

[maryjk]

They’re not rectifying anything. They are attempting to cloak their adultery under the veil of a “new marriage”. It doesn’t work that way.

OF course they could apply for an annulment. No wait, they aren’t Catholic, nor are they trying to be married in the Catholic church, so they can’t.

How were they living in sin? Non-Catholics validly marry. Since they are both youth ministers, they might even be baptized non-Catholics which would make their marriages sacramental as well.

Two people abandoning their valid sacramental marriages in order to live together before their divorces are even finalized is not rectifying anything as far as I can see.

I’m sure there are more details to the story, but based on the OP, I cannot see how the facts presented could possibly be spun in a positive direction for the planned future nuptials.

There are always more details. Always.

Living together used to be called “living in sin.” That is what they have been doing. Now, they plan to marry. In which case, they will no longer be living in sin.

Sorry, but it has gotten to where Protestants cannot remarry. But Catholics, because they can apply for and receive a decree of nullity, can.

 

[aemcpa]

Sorry, but it has gotten to where Protestants cannot remarry. But Catholics, because they can apply for and receive a decree of nullity, can.

One of the benefits of submitting to the authority of the Vicar of Christ, I suppose. Whatever he looses on earth will be loosed in Heaven.