Monday, April 10, 2017
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 270 - Part II.
(Youcat
answer - repeated) She accepts them lovingly, following Jesus’ example. Anyone
who divorces after being married in the Church and then during the lifetime of
the spouse enters into a new union obviously contradicts Jesus’ clear demand
for the indissolubility of marriage. The Church cannot abolish this demand.
This retraction of fidelity is contrary to the Eucharist, in which it is
precisely the irrevocable character of God’s love that the Church celebrates.
That is why someone who lives in such a contradictory situation is not admitted
to Holy Communion.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 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.
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) Far from treating all specific cases alike,
Pope Benedict XVI speaks about “painful situations” and calls on pastors “to
discern different situations carefully, in order to be able to offer
appropriate spiritual guidance to the faithful involved” (Apostolic Exhortation
Sacramentum caritatis, 29)
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 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 (Cf. FC 84).
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