Tag Archives: indissolubility

Peter Hünermann’s errors about marriage and their influence today

Posted on 28 March 2018 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

One of the figures who emerged from the shadows through the Lettergate scandal, is German liberal (wrong) theologian Peter Hünermann. Benedict XVI had a strong negative reaction to finding him among the writers of the series that was intended to bolster … Read More →

Posted in One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill | Tagged Amoris Laetitia, indissolubility, marriage, matrimony, Peter Hünermann
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U.S. priest in L’Osservatore Romano promotes either dissoluble marriage or polygamy

Posted on 17 November 2017 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

You have to pay attention to language, especially in the hands of libs. They twist and they turn. They set you up with implicit premises which you might breeze right by. They lead you astray and into the dark places … Read More →

Posted in Liberals, One Man & One Woman | Tagged Amoris Laetitia, Gerald Bednar, indissolubility, marriage, matrimony, polygamy
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Expert canonist Ed Peters explains the sit to Matthew Boudway (Nihil habens) re: Fr. Murray

Posted on 25 October 2017 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

This is something that every parish priest and seminarian should read and commit to memory. It is at the heart of many controversies (not excluding the mendacity of the Left trying to edge out the Truth with innuendo and ambiguity). … Read More →

Posted in SESSIUNCULA | Tagged can. 1141, can. 1142, Ed Peters, Fr. Gerald Murray, indissolubility, matrimony, Matthew Boudway
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Douthat on The End of Catholic Marriage

Posted on 1 December 2016 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I’m out and about and so can’t do more than point you in the direction of Hell’s Bible (aka NYT) where the redoubtable Ross Douthat has written more about the Great Matter of what’s up with the Church’s teaching on … Read More →

Posted in SESSIUNCULA | Tagged Amoris Laetitia, Bp. Robert McElroy, indissolubility, matrimony, Ross Douthat
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Pope Francis v. Pope Francis about indissolubility and marriage

Posted on 19 June 2016 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

So Pope Francis in unofficial off-the-cuff remarks says that the majority of marriages are invalid because people don’t get what marriage is. Those off-the-cuff remarks were quickly amended and are now the official off-the-cuff remarks, whatever that means. I was … Read More →

Posted in Francis, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill | Tagged indissolubility, marriage, matrimony, Pope Francis, Roman Rota
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Must Catholic doctrine on marriage now be affirmed by every bishop and bishops conference individually?

Posted on 15 April 2016 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

At the peculiarly appellated Eponymous Flower there is (in addition to a poll on the sidebar about Amoris laetitia) a piece gleaned from Katholisches.info about a presser held by the honchos of the Spanish Bishops Conference on, yes, Familiaris divortio … … Read More →

Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices | Tagged Amoris Laetitia, indissolubility, matrimony, Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation, Synod of Bishops
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Pope Francis: “there cannot be confusion between the family desired by God and every other type of union”

Posted on 24 January 2016 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

The other day His Holiness Pope Francis gave the annual address to the Roman Rota. HERE The Rota, the Tribunal Apostolicum Rotae Romanae or Apostolic Tribunal of the Roman Rota is the Church’s highest appellate court. It takes its name from the round … Read More →

Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, Francis, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill | Tagged indissolubility, marriage, matrimony, Roman Rota
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Ongoing, post-Synod attempts to undermine indissolubility of marriage

Posted on 24 December 2015 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I have this from a theologian friend. He put together this summary of issues surrounding the last two Synods of Bishops on the Family and the current plots to undermine Catholic teaching concerning the indissolubility of matrimony. Read carefully. He pulls … Read More →

Posted in HONORED GUESTS, Liberals, One Man & One Woman, Synod, The Drill, What are they REALLY saying? | Tagged Antonio Spadaro, Bp. Semararo, indissolubility, marriage, matrimony
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Pope Francis and “doctors of the law”

Posted on 18 March 2015 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Here is an interesting contrast. First, a snip from an off-the-cuff, non-Magisterial remark of Pope Francis during a daily homily. Note his disparaging words about “doctors of the law”. Hmmm… it seems to me that there is something missing. Of … Read More →

Posted in Benedict XVI, Francis, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity | Tagged Benedict XVI, divorce and remarriage, Holy Communion, indissolubility, Sacramentum caritatis, Sacramentum caritatis 29
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Pope Francis, Communion, and the outskirts of Buenos Aires

Posted on 13 October 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

You might have a look at something that Sandro Magister posted today, which could give us an insight into what Pope Francis is thinking. HERE Here is a sample: […] he sociology of religion would have much to say in … Read More →