Your position on divorce?

[joanofarc2008]

WE SHOULD FOLLOW THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST .
So, no,on this I do not agree with the teachings of the Church,I believe in using my logic,reason.

Fides et Ratio (Latin: faith and reason) is an encyclical promulgated by Pope John Paul II on 14 September 1998. It deals primarily with the relationship between faith and reason.
The Pope posits that faith and reason are not only compatible, but essential together. Faith without reason, he argues, leads to superstition. Reason without faith, he argues, leads to nihilism and relativism.<<<
Not only when it suits!!! or “made to measure”

I would strongly suggest re-reading Matthew 15:31-32. Then because obviously you do not have the grasp on the Bible that you think you do since it was Christ Himself that abolished divorce and remarriage except in cases where the marriage was unlawful. It is this where the marriage was unlawful that is examined in cases of decrees of nullity. And yes I am living my vows and will live my vows until I receive my decree of nullity or one of us dies. I am sorry you left the Church - but my question is why did you not try for a decree of nullity? Or did you just not receive one?

Christ’s Church is not Burger King - we can’t always have it our way. This does not always make people happy. It is as one of my friends said when she found out after remarriage that she needed to have a decree of nullity for her first marriage. (She had spent 25 years away from the Church) Being Catholic is not easy - if we want it easy we should be Protestant.

It does put a whole new slant on our Baptismal/Confirmation promises now, doesn’t it?

 

[Ignatius]

Just wondering…because the Bible isn’t exactly for divorce, but people are sometimes liberal in this area.

The problem isn’t just divorce but divorce and remarriage.

 

[joanofarc2008]

The problem isn’t just divorce but divorce and remarriage.

This is well said - I would go one step further - The problem isn’t just divorce or divorce and remarriage but divorce and remarriage without the benefit of decree of nullity.

 

[rainbow1]

My position on divorce mirrors the Church’s position on divorce. I am divorced in a secular court.

Dissolusion of the secular marriage contract is sometimes required for the protection of one party against the actions of the other, or when one party persists in unrepentant sin and that places the salvation of the other party and children in jeapordy. Without getting too personal, both of the above circumstances were my reason for seeking a to have the secular marriage contract disolved in a court of law.

But in terms of the sacramental bond of matrimony, that can never be dissolved. My wife and I are married in the eyes of God and his Church and the fact that one of us is not faithful to the coventant relationship we have entered into does not disolve the other from the covenant. I have promised to “Forsake all others” until either my wife or I should die, that is what I must do - forsake all others.

-Tim-

Tim, is it possible for you to obtain an annulment? An annulment doesn’t dissolve a marriage, it just indicates the marriage sacramentally did not exist due to conditions at the beginning of the marriage…if that is the case. Maybe that is the situation for you.
I ,too, have been through a difficult marriage and divorce … will start the annulment process this month, but likely will stay single. Finding comfort in Holy Adoration…also finding that a holy single life is fantastic for having extra time to be “free” to minister to others. God bless you!

 

[The_Blunt_Brig]

The Catechism of the Catholic Church, which Pope John Paul II said is “a sure norm for teaching the faith” says the church’s position on divorce.

2382 The Lord Jesus insisted on the original intention of the Creator who willed that marriage be indissoluble.174 He abrogates the accommodations that had slipped into the old Law.175

Between the baptized, "a ratified and consummated marriage cannot be dissolved by any human power or for any reason other than death."176

2383 The separation of spouses while maintaining the marriage bond can be legitimate in certain cases provided for by canon law.177
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If civil divorce remains the only possible way of ensuring certain legal rights, the care of the children, or the protection of inheritance, it can be tolerated and does not constitute a moral offense.*

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.178

2385 Divorce is immoral also because it introduces disorder into the family and into society. This disorder brings grave harm to the deserted spouse, to children traumatized by the separation of their parents and often torn between them, and because of its contagious effect which makes it truly a plague on society.

2386 It can happen that one of the spouses is the innocent victim of a divorce decreed by civil law; this spouse therefore has not contravened the moral law. There is a considerable difference between a spouse who has sincerely tried to be faithful to the sacrament of marriage and is unjustly abandoned, and one who through his own grave fault destroys a canonically valid marriage.179

 

[brb3]

God hates divorce. So, if it must happen …let your spouse initiate it…and only sign off on if u are forced to.