02-29-2004, 02:00 PM
Quote:The "sin" of co-habitation can be forgiven through Confession (the sacrament, not little confession").
*Ding* Light goes on. Makes sense.
Quote:OTOH, if a couple marries in the Catholic Church, then that marriage can only be dissolved through death or annulment. Annulment, in effect, is a claim that the marriage never took place.
My cousin's marriage was annulled, I am familiar with the process. Yech. Hers began with his not acknowledging their child (well, it woulda been absent the miscariage ~4 months into it) and went on to his infidelities. Rough year for her.
Quote:In the past, a part of the requirement for a non-Catholic to marry a Catholic was that the Catholic be free to practice his/her religion and that any children be raised in the Catholic faith. I don't know if this is still the case.
Still holds, at least as recently as when I got married and more recently one of the guys in my office. I agreed to my kids being raised in the Catholic faith, though there is a bit of a hole when both parents are not Catholic. When I attend services, I don't take Communion, since that is technically a foul. (Me being unbaptized and all the other fine bits of doctrine.) I hold to the promise that I made to the Monseigneur, yet I also feel it non hypocritical and within my right to explain the answers to many questions that my kids have about "all that" that are not particularly well covered by Doctrine. I aint raising sheep.
Might want to take some asbestos shorts with me when my time comes, though, if the Pope is indeed right. :o
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete