Reflections of Fast Track Annulments

[@Rittlesleo]

My parents were married for 60 years until my father died. They had a rocky marriage, but stayed together. They knew it was the right thing to do. And they WEREN'T Catholic! As a convert, I find this situation very distressing. I became Catholic partly because I saw the Church as unchanging. The Truth can't change. Holy Mary, Mother of the Church, pray for us!

[@Eazzy9092]

God bless your parents! Truth is Truth and can not be changed to accommodate the culture. The true teachings of the Catholic Church are unchanging, and unchangeable. No one, not the priests, not the bishops, not the cardinals, not the pope can change it. Just as none of them can brake, dissolve or annul the Holy Bond of Matrimony that was welded by God. It is distressing to realize some of what is going on in the church, but remember, humans are not perfect and can be deceived by the enemy. Remain faithful! I am happy that you have joined the rest of us in the fight! Learn, learn, learn all you can about the true doctrine. Learn about, and from the Saints. Remember: "And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." We have that promise! Your sister in Christ.

[@fabitsok]

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[@michaelallen1396]

The Church has been infiltrated at Vatican 2, we are living in apostasy, Annultery is one of the most glaring abuses.

[@frankbransco6732]

The early fathers such as St Jerome, St Augustine and St Ambrose fought vigourously against divorce and remarriage. They defended the Gospel because they loved the truth.

[@robertofmary8300]

please save us blessed mother mary

[@Eazzy9092]

The pope is so preoccupied with those divorced and remarried, he wants them to feels accepted and welcomed in The Church. Here, I, one who has suffered through a one-sided decision of my spouse to abandon our family and civilly divorce; know my duty to uphold and defend my marriage and remain faithful to the bond, I am the one who has felt forgotten by My Church. I am the one who feel the odd one out in the Catholic Church community, I'm the one who people think is crazy for remaining faithful. Where is the justice for those like me?

[@mariekatherine5238]

Eazzy9092 Your sacrifice simply will not be recognized in this life. Unfortunately, that includes the Church. My friend's husband civilly divorced her and remarried in a foreign country that will do nothing to extradite him to the US, hence no child support. She is now raising their five children on her own and has been forced to go on welfare. Amazingly, she has been advised to "remarry" by a priest! Because she's receiving government benefits and is "employed," she has been denied help from Catholic Charities. IMO, Catholics who actually live according to the precepts of the Church have been abandoned by Her. Sad, but Our Lady warned us.

[@blackcharlieboy]

Abandoned not by Holy Mother Church, no, not by Her, but by the predominance of modernists within Her hierarchy and the manipulative lay people in positions of authority, such as the corrupted and deadly marriage tribunals.

[@Eazzy9092]

Marie Katherine I am so sorry about your friend and I hope she knows how to discern the good advice from heretic advice. I was too given bad advice from people that I thought were "good" Catholics and I thank God that I did not fall for it.

[@Eazzy9092]

***** Yes. Though in the midst of our ordeal when our senses are being drained by civil law, family, children, work to feed the children, bad advice, and the list goes... it is very difficult for the common church attending catholic to see the difference between "The Catholic Church" and the catholic church and her teaching.

[@juliebenade4573]

eazzy9092, I'm also civilly divorced but choosing to remain faithful to the marital bond. It's painfully lonely and, yes, most people thinks I'm crazy. I offer up my suffering for the conversions of my children and for my husband. It's all I can do.

[@henryho1706]

Yes, truly shaking the foundation of Church. Within these two months our parish had three marriages based on the annulment of marriage. One guy even has annulment for the second time. I was scratching my head why they could have the annulment so easily. I have been a long time Catholic and this is the first time in my life encounter such nonsense!

[@frankbransco6732]

Its pure garbage. They are leading people down the wrong path instead of teaching the truth.

[@lizleary101]

Wouldn't like to be a faithful priest now. The pope is hanging them out to dry. I must pray more.

[@Eazzy9092]

Yes, we must pray!! Storm heaven with Rosaries every day.

[@lindamcdermott2205]

Is it possible that this is just a part of many modern time moral problems? Likely one problem is lack of spiritual maturity ie, examination of conscience, inability to avoid the 7 deadly sins encouraged or condoned by worldly society. We used to be taught this, to distinguish right from wrong in childhood. So of course this same defect goes into marriage, our children, the priesthood....

[@StJohnPaulXXIII]

I'd like to know what St JP II and Benedict said about severe incapacity of the will and how it squares with Canon 1095.2

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Marriage in the Catholic Church, also called matrimony, is the "covenant by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring", and which "has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament between the baptised." Catholic matrimonial law, based on Roman law regarding its focus on marriage as a free mutual agreement or contract, became the basis for the marriage law of all European countries, at least up to the Reformation. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: "The intimate community of life and love which constitutes the married state has been established by the Creator and endowed by him with its own proper laws. . . . God himself is the author of marriage. The vocation to marriage is written in the very nature of man and woman as they came from the hand of the Creator. Marriage is not a purely human institution despite the many variations it may have undergone through the centuries in different cultures, social structures, and spiritual attitudes. These differences should not cause us to forget its common and permanent characteristics. Although the dignity of this institution is not transparent everywhere with the same clarity, some sense of the greatness of the matrimonial union exists in all cultures. The well-being of the individual person and of both human and Christian society is closely bound up with the healthy state of conjugal and family life." It also says: "The Church attaches great importance to Jesus' presence at the wedding at Cana. She sees in it the confirmation of the goodness of marriage and the proclamation that thenceforth marriage will be an efficacious sign of Christ's presence. In his preaching Jesus unequivocally taught the original meaning of the union of man and woman as the Creator willed it from the beginning; permission given by Moses to divorce one's wife was a concession to the hardness of hearts. The matrimonial union of man and woman is indissoluble: God himself has determined it 'what therefore God has joined together, let no man put asunder'. This unequivocal insistence on the indissolubility of the marriage bond may have left some perplexed and could seem to be a demand impossible to realize. However, Jesus has not placed on spouses a burden impossible to bear, or too heavy - heavier than the Law of Moses. By coming to restore the original order of creation disturbed by sin, he himself gives the strength and grace to live marriage in the new dimension of the Reign of God."

[@guerlinesaintlouis4471]

What about the Haitians Catholic Church?

[@xiomaraporta-blanco4892]

No regards to family values, very sad indeed. But where are we? Are we going to leave as well? Not me!

[@heartofgoldfilmandtheatre]

Sensus Fidelium tell us what to do about this... what is the best course of action as a lay person then?

[@edwaggonersr.7446]

Resist.

[@kindz]

Stay faithful to your vocation, irrespective of the external world if you desire well to know what path God has set for you to take ..then you will know it no matter what .Keep asking and God will make ways to make sure that it is known to you

[@D9P323]

So just to begin with the annulment process in the USA, you MUST be divorced first?? Fr Ripperger said that you cannot or don't have the right to repudiate the marriage and cannot compell a child to chose between their parents, basically making them act to divide the family.....this is unreal😢 Its definitely the last battle before the Triumph

[@edsteel6715]

My understanding for my annulment was ....in our first meeting if there were no circumstances that would be seen to grant an annulment I was not permitted to go through the process. Maybe that's why so many annulments were granted. I don't know just saying what happened in my case.

[@AFreckledAngel]

EXACTLY! If there's no cause then the priest won't even file the paperwork for annulment!

[@dellchica2373]

Therefore don't get married. Too much headache if it fails. How on earth you know it's the right person. All sorts of wrong things go on after the vows.

[@frankbransco6732]

It can be beautiful but requires much prayer and sacrifice.

[@john-paulgies4313]

"His disciples say unto him: If the case of a man with his wife be so, it is not expedient to marry. Who said to them: All men take not this word, but they to whom it is given. For there are eunuchs, who were born so from their mothers womb: and there are eunuchs, who were made so by men: and there are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven. He that can take, let him take it." (Matthew 19:10-12) "From that time Jesus began to shew to his disciples, that he must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the ancients and scribes and chief priests, and be put to death, and the third day rise again. And Peter taking him, began to rebuke him, saying: Lord, be it far from thee, this shall not be unto thee. Who turning, said to Peter: Go behind me, Satan, thou art a scandal unto me: because thou savourest not the things that are of God, but the things that are of men. Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For he that will save his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for my sake, shall find it." (Matthew 16:21-25)

[@aaaataaaaaaaa7458]

What is the name of the priest that makes this presentation?

[@JB_kind]

That’s what I want to know.

[@john-paulgies4313]

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[@michaelciccone2194]

Is this priest a novus ordo priest or SSPX or SSPV?

[@AFreckledAngel]

As a convert to the Catholic faith , I needed am annulment to make my current marriage valid and to be entered into the church. If my previous marriage not annulled them I couldn't become a Catholic. Please pray for converts and don't judge all annulments as a quick escape out of a marriage. I'm going on a year and still have not had my annulment heard before the tribunal, therefore I can't join the church.

[@frankbransco6732]

Read what St Jerome, St Ambrose and St Augustine say about divorce and second wife. Dig deep. Your soul will thank you on Judgment Day.

[@MariadeJesus-dt4ql]

There is a lot of noise...of children talking ...while you talk...hard to listen to video.

[@butterflybeatles]

This man's pronunciation is atrocious.

[@pattican700]

THAT is what you got out of this sermon? smh

[@sue200012]

butterflybeatles is a troll.

[@Lancer-y5g]

A troll who has probably abandoned a marriage (or 2) and gotten one of these invalid annulments