Jennifer Roback Morse, Ruth Institute, interviews Bai Macfarlane

Jennifer Roback Morse, Ruth Institute, interviews Bai Macfarlane

  • Posted by Mary's Advocates
  • On December 5, 2020
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Jennifer Roback Morse is the author of “The Sexual State” and founder of the Ruth Institute which publicizes the devastation resultant from the sexual revolution.  She understands the injustice of no-fault divorce. We discussed the civil state’s destruction of marriage and the impossibility of a divorce defendant stopping a divorce.

Jennifer appreciates Mary’s Advocates’ ability to assist someone defending their marriage against an accusation of invalidity in a Catholic tribunal.  After I gave examples of procedural violations of rights in marriage nullity cases, Jennifer says she knows, personally, a woman who upheld the validity of her marriage with our help. She believes that errors of the godless anti-family, anti-marriage culture has infected the Church.

We discussed the heart of standers who know they are still married regardless of being divorced. Separated faithful wear our rings, have supernatural hope of reconciliation, and don’t use the phrase “ex-spouse.”  Jennifer asked me how Mary’s Advocates support separated faithful and she underlines the spiritual significance of standers offering up our suffering. If she was the director of a diocesan marriage and family office, Jennifer says she would start a standers group.

Video below published HERE on Ruth Institute’s YouTube Channel
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David Babb
Bai I can concur with many of the statements here. I checked the box in the legal response that I don't want this divorce, before our first hearing I read to my wife from the CCC that divorce is a grave sin and a great scandal to society and destruction to the family. She said there are exceptions. I asked our Vicar General if he would send a message to my wife telling her not to do this, he said he wouldn't, the diocese did not want to give ammo to the divorce lawyer's case. After stalling as long as I could, under penalty of judge censure and my own lawyer rebuking me and threatening to quit, I was forced to comply with the divorce. My wife moved back to Korea and less than 3 months after the divorce was finalized I received an annulment questionnaire from the Diocese of Seoul. No statement about her case or the grounds for annulment. I wrote a 30 page response witnessed by a priest stating my case why we should be separated but that I do not want a divorce or an annulment. I wear the ring and call my wife, my wife. I am not dating any other woman nor will I be as long as my wife lives. I have 2 adult stepsons in Korea. When I talked to the older one yesterday, he wants nothing to do with my wife. He said dealing with the family situation makes him very stressed and he wants to remove her from his life. And the weak flame of the candle of his faith has been extinguished by her claiming to be holy while pursuing this divorce. Thank you again Bai for this ministry. My strength to remain as a stander - when literally everyone tells me to get back on my feet and get over it - comes from renewal of the truth found in places like this. PS Mentioned briefly during the interview, I recommend Leila Miller's "Impossible" Marriages Redefined for those in my situation.

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