[…]to children Fidelity (no actual physical full adultery) Oriented towards mutual help and remedy for concupiscence (commonly called bonum coniugum, that is subordinate to the upbringing and education of children) If sacramentality of marriage is assumed to mean one’s “desire to live life as a fully authentic Catholic,” then readers […]
[…]assets and debt; splits children with some parenting plan; orders one spouse to pay support; and frees both to enter another civil marriage. For Catholics, spouses are obligated to uphold their marriage promises, and only in limited circumstances is separation of spouses tolerable. An innocent spouse is justified in separating […]
[…]and justice. When bride and groom marry, they agree to uphold certain promises. They agree, for example, to cooperate to maintain a common marital home, including contributing their full share toward the material good (labor and financial) of the household. For those who enter Catholic marriage, only in limited grave […]
[…]for six or twelve months, a government court will force a no-fault divorce/separation on a husband and children. In other states, a wife only needs to say “Our marriage is irretrievably broken” or “we have irreconcilable differences.” Brian is praying that his diocese will still intervene and conduct a proper […]
[…]require that the accused party must be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation. For example, if Jane’s neighbor accused Jane of aggravated assault, he’d have to tell the police and prosecuting attorney his general description of what and when it happened. Jane has the right to know […]
[…]to disobedience, causing many priests to solicit a penitent to commit a sin against the sixth commandment, asserting something false in a public ecclesiastic documents, and failing in his duty to urge the observance of ecclesiastical laws. All these offenses can bind the Tribunal of the Roman Rota to issue […]
