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@azureline** wrote:

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@cmcoins2000 wrote:

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@azureline** wrote:

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@cmcoins2000 wrote:

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@azureline** wrote:

Catholics have always been allowed to remarry after divorcing.......there are and always have been, ways of doing so.

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That - perhaps - is only since the Catholic Church granted anyone a divorce.

 

 

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The Catholic Church does not grant divorces. That's a civil matter.

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If I may be so bold.

 

What is an  ANNULLMENT - if not a divorce.

 

A rose by any other name.

 

Etc, ect,

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Civil divorce ends a civil marriage; a Church annulment declares that the Sacrament of Matrimony didn’t occur

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Yep, living in ' holy matrimony ' - married right up there in front of the altar  ( read alter) - living together in said ' matrimony ' for 20 (or whatever years) - said marriage didn't happen - said Sacrement of Matrimony - does not count & didn't occur.

How bl**dy convenient.