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This means that people who undergo civil divorce remain full members of the Church, which regards their marriage as intact.Īn annulment is recognition from the Church that the marriage was never valid in the first place. The proposal was put forward by a group of 11 senior Catholic leaders in a backlash against Pope Francis’ attempt to give divorcees a fast-track route to forgiveness by the ChurchĬatholic doctrine does not recognise divorce, although the Church accommodates those who go through civil divorce on the grounds that a couple who part must settle on who will bring up their children and how their property should be divided.

One of the 11, Cardinal Carlo Caffarra of Bologna, said that easing the rules for couples who are divorced and remarried ‘is the mistaken pity of an incompetent or weak physician who contents himself with bandaging wounds without treating them’. It urges caution before the rules on annulments are eased.

The 11 dissident prelates are to put their arguments in a book to be released next week by a San Francisco publishing house run by the same Jesuit tradition to which Francis himself belongs.Įleven Cardinals Speak on Marriage and the Family will call for stern laws on marriage and annulment to remain, and for Catholic teaching on lifelong marriage to be strengthened. Pope Francis’ reforms, announced this week, are designed to make it simpler, cheaper and much quicker to get a marriage annulment.īut conservative Catholics believe that easing the way to annulments will undermine the teaching that marriage is for life and encourage more divorce. It is likely to add to the confusion and pain felt by many divorced Catholics, who are excommunicated if they remarry without first having their original marriage annulled by the Church. The proposal was put forward by a group of 11 senior Catholic leaders in a backlash against Pope Francis’ attempt to give divorcees a fast-track route to forgiveness by the Church. The ‘no sex’ rule would ensure that divorcees who get married again are properly contrite before they are allowed back into the fold of the Church, they said. Divorced Roman Catholics should be able to remarry - but only if they abstain from having sex, a prominent group of cardinals said yesterdayĭivorced Roman Catholics should be able to remarry - but only if they abstain from having sex, a prominent group of cardinals said yesterday.

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