Well, I'm Catholic now

[GKC]

Annulment is not the dissolution of marriage. It is a declaration that no sacramental marriage took place. Please, if you are going to direct darts at Church teachings, please be accurate about it.

Hear! Hear!

 

[PRmerger]

The Church Jesus started was the church catholic.

Could you please answer my question?

Is there any other way you know what Christ revealed except through the Catholic Church?

Our pastor has not yet married divorced people in our church. Neither have we created something called “annullment” to get around all that.

Why has he not done this?

Does he proclaim from the pulpit that divorce and remarriage is adultery?

 

[Peter_J]

But in the analogy, the “answer” is precisely about what Jesus wants. To say “I know Jesus’ answer is right” presupposes that you know already what Jesus’ answer is, which is the point under discussion.

That it is. We all agree (assuming this is an intra-Christian discussion) that everything from Jesus is infallible, but disagree about what is from him.

It’s like if I were to try to convince an Orthodox Christian of Mary’s Immaculate Conception by saying “Don’t you believe that something declared infallibly must be true?”

 

[Contarini]

Why has he not done this?

You know, quite a lot of conservative Protestants have a strict view on this. At least my family did, and we knew many others who did too, growing up.

Does he proclaim from the pulpit that divorce and remarriage is adultery?

That’s a rather unfair standard, since I’ve never heard this stated explicitly from a Catholic pulpit either.

Edwin

 

[Porknpie]

You know, quite a lot of conservative Protestants have a strict view on this. At least my family did, and we knew many others who did too, growing up.

That’s a rather unfair standard, since I’ve never heard this stated explicitly from a Catholic pulpit either.

Edwin

It is explicit Catholic teaching. CCC below.

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.

And very scriptural.

18 “Every one who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

 

[PRmerger]

You know, quite a lot of conservative Protestants have a strict view on this. At least my family did, and we knew many others who did too, growing up.

Fair enough.

I will say I have never heard of a single Protestant denomination which will not marry someone who’s been previously divorced.

That’s a rather unfair standard, since I’ve never heard this stated explicitly from a Catholic pulpit either.

Edwin

This, too, is fair.

I suppose I don’t look at it as only a literal proclamation from a pulpit. I consider the Catechism, which explicitly professes that the new union cannot be recognized as valid, as a “proclamation from the pulpit”.

 

[Contarini]

It is explicit Catholic teaching. CCC below.

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.

And very scriptural.

18 “Every one who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

I know. But you spoke specifically of preaching, and it’ snot my experience that Catholic priests preach about this.

 

[Peter_J]

I know. But you spoke specifically of preaching,

Actually, Porknpie didn’t say that.

 

[PRmerger]

I know. But you spoke specifically of preaching, and it’ snot my experience that Catholic priests preach about this.

It was me, not Pork, who said that, Edwin.

 

[benjohnson]

Awesome news! Praise be to God!

May you find your home in the Catholic Church.