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May 8, 2024 · A divorced or separated person is not excommunicated and is still a Catholic in good standing. The only reason for excommunication after divorce is remarriage without going through the annulment process. Before a divorced person can remarry in the Catholic Church, he or she must obtain an annulment by a Catholic diocesan tribunal. Obtaining ...
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Feb 12, 2014 · The canon never says that those who have been married twice did public penance and simply reentered the Church. So, did the early Church just readmit divorced people without blinking an eye? A third observation should be made about the meaning of the Greek term “digamos.”
May 9, 2020 · There are various reasons—influence of cultic purity laws for Old Testament priests, possible conflict over inheriting Church property, the teaching of Jesus cited above and St. Paul’s teaching on celibacy (1 Corinthians 7:32-35).
Jan 24, 2015 · U.S. Stories of Catholic Marriage and Divorce. By DIANTHA PARKERJAN. 24, 2015. A synod of Roman Catholic bishops met in Rome in fall 2014 to begin a broad discussion of the church’s teachings...
Jun 25, 2014 · Cardinal Thomas Collins: The Catholic Church simply teaches what Jesus teaches: marriage is an unbreakable covenant between a man and a woman, faithful in love and open to the gift of life. Divorce and remarriage is not allowed when it is a matter of a valid, sacramental, and consummated marriage.
No one denies that a rather substantive number of Catholics have taken their leave during the past 20 years, and Byron and Zech wanted to find out why. They did so in the most direct way possible and asked those who had quit. The answers they got were, in many ways, predictable.
What is often referred to as a “marriage annulment” in the Church is actually a declaration by a Church tribunal (a Catholic Church court) that a marriage thought to be valid according to Church law actually fell short of at least one of the essential elements required for a binding union.
