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Show 237: Matrimony part 1 · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: A Hey, y'all, welcome this week's show. We'll continue where
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we left off last week with a few questions and
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answers from the Classic work radio replies on the topic
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of baptism, and then we're going to get into the
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last of the sacraments that we've been covering, and this
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one is going to be a particular interest. I think
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to most of my listeners, it's matrimony, as best I
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can tell, and I have looked up every single denomination
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I can find, and I've done a little research on
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somes that were a little murky. The Catholic Church is
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still the only Christian church that says marriage is a
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permanent sacrament and does not allow divorce. It seems the
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Baptists were pretty much of that opinion until the nineteen eighties,
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and as best I can tell, when President Reagan legalized
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no fault divorce, because a lot of the Baptists had
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this idea that they're like Christian first, but American very
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close second, like ultra patriotic, and sometimes the patriotism overshadows
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the religion, they said, well, I guess we have to
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go along with divorce too. That's the best I can figure.
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Method is certainly in aw divorce Presbyterians Lutherans. Martin Luther
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said he would prefer people commit adultery. He wasn't a
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big fan of divorce, but he said they should imitate
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Jesus because he believed Jesus committed adultery with the woman
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at the well. Yeah, it was very evil, heretic. Anyway,
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it's just scratching the surface of Luther. I've done a
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whole show on him, if you want to look that up.
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The Orthodox, it depends on how traditional Orthodox you are.
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Some of them do, I mean at least frown on divorce.
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But I was talking with a I believe a Russian
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Orthodox or was it Greek I cannot remember. Anyway, they
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have sort of a concept of trial marriages, like if
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the first time you marry, if it doesn't work out,
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you can get divorced and remarry. Catholic churches do that.
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We believe that marriage is a sacrament. I mean, the
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Anglican Episcopal Church was literally founded on divorce. And it's
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you know, one of the things I was discussing with
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someone earlier this day. You know, a Protestant was really
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pitch and a fit saying prayers to saints aren't biblical,
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and they're wrong, and they're evil and all that. And
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I said, well, first of all, you know they said
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any communication with the dead is absolutely forbidden by the Bible.
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And I said, well, you know, first of all, you
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are aware that Jesus said that God was the God
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of the living, not the dead, and so the saints
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who are alive in heaven are alive, so they're not dead. Well,
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I don't believe that. My past mastor said this, And
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my pastor said that, and I said, now, what about
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the transfiguration when Jesus went up on the mountain and
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he spoke with Moses and Elijah, he spoke with two
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spirits of people who had died. Well, no, I don't
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believe that. I don't believe that portion of the Bible
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is true whatsoever. Oh my gosh. And again my pastor
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says it's always wrong to talk with the dead. I said, well,
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first of all, if the Bible is the infallible word
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of God, you can't pick and choose what you like. Right,
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if Jesus said it, you have to believe it, because
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God cannot lie. If you're saying Jesus lied, then he's
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not God. Your entire religion falls apart. If you say
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that the apostles through which he founded the church, the
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ones who wrote the New Testament of the Bible, if
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you're saying they lied, then you can't believe anything in
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the Bible. You can't believe them as witnesses that Jesus
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was resurrected, can you, or to his ministry on earth
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or anything. If you say something in the Bible is
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wrong because my pastor says it's wrong, preachers so and
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so says it's wrong, then your entire religion falls apart.
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If I mean, just like again, I'll go to like
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the Southern Baptists and such, and the Reformed Lutherans and
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all that who say that drinking any alcohol is wrong,
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Reform Presbyterians, I think I meant to say. But anyway,
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they will say that drinking alcohol is sinful, and so
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I'll say to him, but wait a minute. It says
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in the Bible Jesus made wine, and we know he
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drank wine at least at the passover. Jesus, being God,
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cannot sin, So therefore your doctrine's wrong, or you're accusing
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Jesus of sin. And they'll say, well, no, that's not
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real wine, that's greape juice. And then I have to
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get into the scientific explanations of how it could not
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be grape juice, and how is it this grape juice
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in one past chapter here made Moses drunk. In another
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past chapter Moses Abram I can't remember, but I mean,
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you know, you can't say be not drunk with wine,
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but be filled with the Holy Spirit. That's one they
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like to quote and not also admit that the wine
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of the Bible is actual wine that could make you drunk. Right,
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So their whole religion falls apart when you point out
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that they're accusing Jesus of either lying or committing sin.
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The same is very very true with divorce. Obviously, if
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Jesus said, let what God has joined, what God has
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joined together, let no man separate, and absolutely explicitly forbade
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divorce and said that someone who divorced and remarried was
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committing adultery, you have to believe that as the word
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of God. And yet the Catholic Church is the only
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church that still teaches that divorce is unacceptable. We do
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have annoyments. Annoyments have very strict guidelines. An annoyment is
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not a no fault divorce. It is not a divorce.
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An annoyment is when the Church looks in a marriage
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and says, was this marriage validly joined in union in
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the first place. That's actually really important because, especially in
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times past, someone could be forced into marriage and they
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were not in love with the person, and they were
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doing being forced to marry against their will they did
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not agree. I mean, you could agree to an arranged
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marriage and with the assumption that you know will fall
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in love eventually, or I just really don't have a
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choice in this matter. I'm going to agree to it.
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Others were forced, you know, physically. Those marriages are not valid.
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If the two in their vowels say they're going to
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love each other, you know, until death us due part,
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but one of them was lying, that's actually a very
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strong grounds for divorce. I mean, it's not always the
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case that someone who's cheating on their spouse or abusive
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never even loved them on the day of their way,
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but sometimes it is. Sometimes somebody will marry for money
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and there was no love involved whatsoever. That is actually
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the authority of the church. When God said what you
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bind on earth will be bound in heaven. What you
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loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. The Holy
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Catholic Church is the only authority on earth to have
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the full authority of God to both bind a couple
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in holy matrimony and loose them from those bonds. So
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we're going to get into that, and it's probably going
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to be about a three parter on that. I think
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we'll do about three different episodes because it really is
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one of the most important, and you know, especially in
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terms of apologetics, like you know, we're always talking here
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about how do you explain the Catholic Church and its
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doctrine and your faith to a Protestant who says, you
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know you're going to hell you worship the Antichrist, you
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must be born again and start thumping the Bible in
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your face. You know, when you start with yes, you
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must be born again by being baptized and receive the
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body and blood of Christ for eu Christ, you left
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off half that sense. You must be pouring again of
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water and the blood because Jesus said, if you don't
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eat his body and drink his blood, you have no
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life in you. That is really important. That's the first part.
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You can throw at them to trip them up, but
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you want to really knock them back and make them
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reconsider everything. Say, okay, in all four chapters, all four
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of the gospels, right, Matthew, Mark Luke, and John. Matthew, Mark,
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Luke and John. Yeah, I'm trying to remember. I can't
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remember chapter of Divorce of where these are, so just
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go look them up. In all four of the Gospels,
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Jesus expressly forbids Christians to divorce, and Jews, for that matter,
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expressly forbids it. And say, what is your church stage?
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Who's right preacher Bob over there or Jesus Christ. So
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you're telling me that you know your church's doctrine is
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the exact opposite of what Jesus said. If that be
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the case on this point, let me discuss some other
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points with you. So it's actually a very good starting point.
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Now let's talk about baptism. So the questioner asks, the
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priest Christ himself was not baptized in his infancy, but
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as an adult. This is most likely a Baptist because
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they are the best I can tell about the only
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Protestant church that believe in adult baptism. And they're absolutely
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shocked when you tell them that Presbyterians and Lutherans and
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Methodists and Anglicans practice infant baptism. They don't believe you you,
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I mean, they literally believe. All Protestants have that as
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a tenet of their faith. It's amazing what how little
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Protestants generally know about the history and development of their
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own denomination, much less other Protestant denominations. They all think
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they're they believe the same thing. Well, they really really don't. Anyway.
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The priest answer, Christ was baptized as an adult because
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only then did he institute this essential right of the
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New Law. You could not expect him to receive it
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before instituting it. Remember that he had received the right
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of circumcision, which is figurative of baptism to be received
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by children, and that right he received in infancy. The
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person says John told his converts to repent and be baptized,
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and they say he was speaking to adult sin. Undoubtedly,
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adults must repent of their personal sins before they can
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come to God. Yet children who are incapable of personal
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sin and repentance are born in original sin. To destroy
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which is destroy, that is the probe, destroy that which
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is the primary purpose of baptism. In other words, primary
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purpose of baptism is free us and original sin. The
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Bible says, believe and be baptized. How can children make
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an act of faith? And the pre censor the command
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to believe and be baptized was addressed to adult listeners only,
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who without faith would not even see the necessity of baptism.
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But children belong to their parents, and the parents may
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certainly give their children to God, professing faith on their
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behalf and promising to bring them up as Christians. Person continues,
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Christ said, several little children come unto me for of
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such as the kingdom of heaven. He has not mentioned
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that they should be baptized, and they, of course reply
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that text has no reference to baptism. Christ's purpose there
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was to insist upon humility. He impressed the moral lesson
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that only such has cultivated the disposition of a child
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before God will enter heaven. But he never said that
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all children, even the unbaptized, would necessarily go to heaven.
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He would contradict his own doctrine if he had said that,
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And if the text had any reference to the baptism
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of children at all, it would tell against your position.
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You have no right and no warrant warrant to refuse baptism,
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baptismal regeneration to children who have had their natural birth
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but not their supernatural rebirth. As person says, I was
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baptized in the Church of England, what is the religion
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of my baptism? And they answer the Catholic religion. Baptism,
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if valid, makes one Christian. Now Catholicity is the only
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true form of Christian Chianity. Therefore, everyone validly baptized is
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radically a Catholic, even if they be unaware of it.
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He says, do you deny that baptism can belong to
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the Anglican Church, And they say yes. All the sacraments
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were instituted by Christ to belong to Christ. Now Christ
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founded the Catholic Church and committed his religion to her
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keeping only. Therefore the sacraments, without exception, belonged to her.
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Not a valid sacrament is proper to the Church of
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England or to any other Protestant church. There is but
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one Lord, one faith, one baptism. If baptistm is administered
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by an Anglican and it be valid, the subject is
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baptized in the Church of England, but not into the
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Church of England. Christ's institute baptism into the Catholic Church,
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not baptism into the Church of England. Now the person answers,
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if that be so. Anglicans are Catholic of after all,
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a thing which I have heard you repeatedly deny, And
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they answer in virtue of their valid baptism. They are
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radically Catholic affiliation with the Catholic Church. By valid baptism.
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One can exclude himself from the true invisible Church by
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a conscious heresy or schism. If a child is baptistized
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validly into the Church of England, that child is a
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Catholic and remains a Catholic until he comes to the
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age of region and adopts a heretical and schismatical Anglicanism.
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For example, if I receive an adult Anglican together with
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his infant sign into the Catholic Church, and is certain
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that both have been baptized validly, I have to ask
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the father to abjure heresy and profess formally his submission
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to the Catholic Church. But nothing is done in regard
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to the infant son. It is simply taught Catholic doctrines
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and brought up as a Catholic It's baptism, although performed
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in the Anglican Church, made it a member of the
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Catholic Church. In that sense, every valid sacrament, even marriage,
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belongs to the Catholic Church. Usually, however, converts to the
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Catholic Church are baptized again conditionally, lest there's should be
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any radical defect in their first submission. To that right,
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I don't think conditional baptisms are as common as they
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werence were. Basically, you're asked, were you baptized in the
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name of the Father Son the Holy Spirit? And were
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you baptized with water? That's about it, and if so,
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the church says you had a valid baptism. Of course,
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when you're confirmed, you have to renounce Satan and all
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his works and all that you do. Your baptismal vowels
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again at that point. So when a Protestant such as
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myself becomes Catholic, I did not receive a conditional baptism,
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even though I asked for one. The priest said it
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was not necessary and would not be proper, and I
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really wanted one. So I've talked with many Protestants have
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converted to Catholicism. Who says the same thing I wanted
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that conditional baptism because I wanted to be sure. And
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then we have to realize, if the priest says it's right,
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it's right. That's what we're sure of. We're sure of
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the authority of the Catholic Church and her representatives. All right,
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So let's talk about the sacrament of matrimony. What food
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is to the individual, matrimony is to humanity in general.
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For his food serves to maintain the life of the individual,
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so marriage serves to maintain the life of the human race,
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since the principal object of marriage there is the right
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training of children, and can only be attained when a
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man and woman are united together by an indissoluble bond.
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The wise Creator in the beginning only created two human beings,
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saying the two shall be one in flesh Genesis two
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twenty four. God himself instituted the matrimony in the beginning
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of the world for the procreation of the human race
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and for mutual assistance of husband and wife. Matrimony was
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instituted by God for the propagation of the human race,
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for he said to our first parents, increase and multiply
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and feel the earth. Genesis one eight Saint Franks A
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Sow calls matrimony the nursery ground of Christianity, destined to
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fill the earth with believers and complete the number of
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the elect in heaven. It was also instituted for the
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mutual support of parties contracting it. For God said before
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Eve was created, it is not good for man to
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be alone. Let us make him a helpmate, like unto ourself,
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like unto himself. There we go Genesis two eighteen. The woman,
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being the weaker, needs someone on whom to lean. The
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man needs someone to care for him. The man is
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characterized by greater strength and energy. He seeks the sphere
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of activity in the world. The woman's nature is cast
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in a softer mold. Her sphere of work is beside
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the domestic hearth. Thus the two complement each other, and
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each acts beneficially on the other. Matrimony has also third object,
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that of preventing sin, of which the apostle speaks in
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the First Epistle to the Corinthians one Corinthians seven to two.
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He who would set me marriage aside, would give free
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reign to impurity. Many take a vow no. Many take
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a low view of marriage. They consider it as affording
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a legitimate means of indulging their lusts. Such persons will
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not be happy or contented, and will neglect the duties
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of their state. The happiness of matrimony depends to a
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great extent on taking an exalted view of the subject.
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Matrimony is a divine and by no means a human institution.
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It is because matrimony was ordained of God that the
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Church calls it a holy and godly state. The opinion
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of the Manicheans the Man of Jesus, he said, was
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that marriage was to be rejected and condemned by the Church.
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Even the most uncivilized nations consider matrimony to be a
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divine institution, for they practice religious ceremonies of some kind
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on the occasion of marriage, offering sacrifices or prayers. God
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himself appointed the laws of marriage, first through Moses, and
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then afterward by our Lord, the Christion. Marriage is a
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contract between a man and woman, binding them to an
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individual and indissoluble partnership, and conferring on them at the
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same time the grace to fulfill the duties required of them.
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Marriage is therefore not merely a contract. It is, at
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the same time an act by which grace is conferred.
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The contract is not concluded in the presence of a
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minister of the Church solely for the sake of obtaining
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the ecclesiastical bene prediction upon the betrothed couple, but in
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order that they may be truly united together before God
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and wedlock. It was this covenant entered into the presence
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of a minister of the Church, which our Lord raised
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to the dignity of a sacrament. Marriage contracted without the
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solemnities required by the Church in all countries where the
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decree of the Council of Trent has been duly promulgated
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is invalid and null. Okay, that needs to be pointed out.
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The Church now does recognize civil marriage or marriages in
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Protestant churches and such as that saying it's not idea,
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but because marriage predates the sacrament of marriage instituted by Christ,
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it's still valid. In the eighteen nineties that was still
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a matter of controversy. A contract which is invalid cannot
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become a sacrament anymore than the wine and a secular marriage,
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or a marriage and a Protestant church or another religion
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is not does not have the same sacramental nature as one.
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In a Catholic church, the grace conferred there has to
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be a priest involved. Let's just put it that way, Okay.
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A contract which is invalid cannot become a sacrament anymore
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than wine. If it not be really wine can be
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converted in the mass into the blood of Christ. Matrimony
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is a type of the union between Christ and the
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Church Ephesians five point thirty two. As the Church, the
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bride of Christ is one, so the man has but
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one wife. As Christ and the Church are inseparably united,
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so the union of the married is perpetual and indissoluble.
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As the union of Christ in the Church is a
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covenant of grace, so also the union of husband and wife.
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Christ is the head of the Church and the man
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is the head of the woman. The church is subject
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to Christ, so the wife is obedient to the husband.
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Christ in the Church are animated by one spirit, and
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so it should be with husband and wife. Christ never
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abandons the Church, and the church can never be unfaithful
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to Christ. So married people must never be unfaithful to
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one another. You know, I went to a southern Babtish university.
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I actually proved to the professors that monogamy, the command
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that man only have one wife, it isn't found in
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the Bible. It says that deacons or I think it
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was deacons should only be you know, husband's of one wife,
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but it doesn't forbid for everybody. And they were flipping
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out because of that time. You know, they were really
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against gay marriage, which they should be. Unfortunately they're not
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so much anymore. Is now a gay club on campus.
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There was a big gay club on campus before it
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was just in the closet. But also against polygamy. They
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were very strong on that at the time. Unfortunately, they
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were not against divorce in any way, shape or form. It
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was almost the norm, I guess, I would say. But
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when I showed I give I think if I remember quick,
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it was Pope Saint Clement, the third Pope, actually ordained
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by Saint Peter, who said Christians must only have one wife,
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no more polygamy. They actually had to admit, oh, that's Catholic,
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that's not in the Bible, and it was really troubling
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to a lot of them, But hey, what are you
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gonna do? It's the truth. Matrimony is declared to be
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a sacrament by Saint Paul and the early followers of
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the Church. Saint Paul calls matrimony a great sacrament because
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it's typical of the union of Christ and in the
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Church Ephesians five thirty two, a union by which grace
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is imparted. Saint Augustine says that the superiority of marriage
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of the people of God consists in the sanctity of
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the sacrament. The Heathens, says Saint John Christoustum estimated the
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happiness of marriage by the number of children, whereas Christians.
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The Christian considers rather the sanctity of the sacrament. Some
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of the followers of the opinion that Christ raised matrimony
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to a sacrament at the marriage of Cana. At any rate,
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the Church expressly declares that it is truly improperly one
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of the seven sacraments of the evangelical law instituted by Christ.
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That's from the Council of trent I Guess Chapter twenty
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four to one, something like that. Civil marriage is to
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be distinguished from Christian marriage inasmuch as it is no
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sacrament and consequently, in the sight of God, no true
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and real marriage. For Catholics, civil marriages. Civil marriage may
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be said to have been originated with Luther, for he
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prepared the way for the state to legislate concerning marriage.
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What he began, the French Revolution completed, for marriage was
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then declared to be a civil contract concluded before a
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government official. Civil marriage is obligatory or compulsory, when, as
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is the case in some countries, the marriage is otherwise
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not recognized by the state, it is optional when the
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parties are free to choose whether ceremonies should be civil
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or religious, as in America. Finally, it is unavoidable if,
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on the account of the priests being debarred from marrying
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them through political reasons or on other obvious grounds, the
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person desirous of being married cannot be united otherwise than
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by secular authorities. Priests were not allowed to perform marriages
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in the French Revolution, a good or era of the
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Nazi regime. They tried to do the same thing in
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Spain and Mexico. I mean the Communists really hate marriage.
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I mean marriage being the foundation of the of of
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really the Christian family. Communists hate marriage. The devil hates marriage.
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That's the bottom line. And Protestantism is very much founded
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on divorce. Civil marriage is not a sacrament because it
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is not contracted in the manner ordained by God in
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the Church. It is nothing more or less than a
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legal form which must be gone through in order that
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the marriage may be recognized by the state, and Catholics
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must submit to it if there is no other means
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of having their union recognized by the state. They should
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not ever see the ecclesiastical ceremony. They should, I'm sorry,
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let me try again. They should, however, see that the
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ecclesiastical ceremony takes place as soon after as possible, for
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in TiAl of their marriage has been solemnized by the Church,
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they are bound to live apart as in the side
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of God, they are not really husband and wife. Catholics
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who contract civil marriages are not afterward and are not
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afterward married in the Church, cannot obtain absolution and are
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excluded from the sacraments until they obtain the sanction of
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God and the Church upon their union, or give it
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up altogether. Catholics who prefer civil marriage when it is
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optional or optional, or can hint themselves with it when
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it is unavoidable, are excommunicated. Isn't that interesting. I'm not
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sure that that's still current teaching, but I would definitely
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check with my priest to make sure. I mean, there's
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no reason that shouldn't still be church law. I haven't
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heard people talk about it though, but you know, in
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order to get married in the Catholic Church, you do
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have to go through premarital counseling with your priest, and
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that's maybe that's something he tells people. I'm not married.
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God's never brought the right woman into my life. I
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still hope to get married and have a family someday,
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so I'll find out all about that later. The Holy
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See condemns civil marriages in no measured terms. Pope Pious
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the Ninth declares the union of man and woman, if
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not a sacrament, is a shameful concubinage. Although perfectly legal
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according to civil code, civil marriage has disastrous results for
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the state, for it undermines faith and authority and morals.
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Let's see, the Holy Father, let me see, there's actually
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a footnote here for what Popius said. What is said
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in this paragraph respecting the invalidity of civil or clandestine
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marriages is only true in those countries where the decree
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of the Council of Trent has been duly promulgated. In England, Scotland,
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and most of the United States of America. Marriage contracted
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between two baptized Catholics without the sanction of the Catholic
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Church is a valid marriage and sacrament, although an unlawful
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and sacrilegious act. There, Okay, that's perfect. That was the
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clarification I needed. In all cases where there is any
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doubt about the validity of a marriage to parish priest
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or the bishop of the diocese should be consulted. Absolutely,
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So I was actually right on that. That's good. Okay, okay.
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Civil marriage has disastrous results for the state, for it
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undermines faith, authority, and morals. The Holy Father asserted civil
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marriage to be a fatal institution. To render it compulsory
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is to over throw the law of God, or is
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tantamount to abserning that Christian marriage is ordained by God,
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is invalid and a union blessed by the churches contrary
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to law. What would be said if stealing or any
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other crime forbidden by the Divine command were enforced by
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the law of the land. Rebellions such as this against
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God cannot fail to undermine the faith in God and
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respect for His commandments, and experience proves that the government,
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which undermines the divine authority brings about its own downfall.
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Civil marriages are also detrimental to morality. Divorce is an
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easy matter for persons who have been married by a
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registrar on a comparatively slight disagreement or offense. They are separated,
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each being free to contract a second marriage. What is
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the consequence. The floodgates are open to admit unbridled license
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the so called free love advocated by socialists. Yes, this
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was true even in the eighteen nineties. That's where they
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got it. In the sixties. The whole hippie free love
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thing was actually a tenant of socialism and communism in
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the eighteen hundreds. Really, at least beginning around eighteen forty
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to eighteen sixty. You know, Marx and Ingalls were doing
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their writing, and there were communists before them. They were
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just the ones picked right in the manifesto. So it's
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been a way around for quite a while. This is
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proved by the number of divorce cases falling on the
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deduction of civil marriage. Nor need we wonder for in
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a civil marriage, no promise of mutual love, no valle fidelity,
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is required from the contracting parties. According to the Ordinances
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of Christ, Christian marriage is strictly a union between two
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persons only, and that is indissoluble. Matrimony was raised by
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our Lord to the dignity of a state of evangelical perfection,
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to which weightier responsibilities and more laborious duties were attached
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than the ages preceding his advent. He therefore granted greater
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graces to those who should enter into wedlock. Christian marriage
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consists of the union of one man and one woman only.
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By creating only one man and one woman, God manifests
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it to be his will that marriage should be the
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union of two persons only. Our Lord pointed out that
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in the beginning this was so Matthew nineteen four. The
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marriage that does not answer to this description cannot possibly
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be a true and lasting partnership. Domestic strife must Infallibians
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infallibly ensue. Yet in the earlier times God permitted polygamy
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to prevent greater evils. A plurality of wives is forbidden
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by Our Lord in Luke sixteen eighteen. Okay, apparently that
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wasn't really explicit enough for the Baptist at the College,
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and God admits it's not as explicit as I would prefer,
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but ye Saint Clement made it absolutely clear. Consequently, is
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prohibited more strictly by the law of the Church. Polygamy
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is unlawful and a violent of the natural law ord
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the Council of Trent. It continues, however, to exist among
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Mohammed Men Mohammed Muslims, and among the Jews in the
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East but the West, ever since the Middle Ages. In
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the West, ever since the Middle Ages, the Jews gave
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it up as well. In deference to the code of
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morality absorbed by European nations. Christian marriage is indissoluble, that
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is saying, neither husband nor wife can contract a second
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marriage during the lifetime with the other. The principal object
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of matrimony is to provide for the proper bringing up
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of children, an object which could not be obtained if
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the nuptial tie were dissoluble. What would become of the
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children that the parents were free to separate at their pleasure? Well,
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we can answer that in our time, can't we furries
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and trans and drug gags and overdoses and suicides. Anyway,
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Our Lord strictly forbids anyone to marry again as long
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as the partner of his or her first marriage is living.
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I stated that Matthew I've thirty two and Mark ten eleven.
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Under the Law of Moses, the Jews were, it is true, permitted,
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under exceptional circumstances, to put away their wives. But this
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was only by reason of the hardness of their hearts
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and to prevent worse evils from Matthew nineteen eight. Christ
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Christ withdrew this permission. He states expressly what God hath
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joined together, let no man put asunder Matthew nineteen four
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through nine. Hence, the Popes have never allowed one of
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two lawfully married persons to contract a second marriage during
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the lifetime of the other party. Not even for the
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sake of averting the most serious calamities, could they consent
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to such a thing. It is well known that King
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Henry the eighth of England could not wring from the
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Holy See permission to divorce his rightful wife and marry
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another eventually, that eventually, in consideration of the services he
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had rendered to the cause of religion, and of the
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fearful consequences which would ensue upon the introduction of the
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Lutheran heresy to England, not even considering that could Clement
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the seventh be prevailed upon to give any other reply
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than this non possumous It is not possible. I have
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no authority to set aside the divine law, he said. Matrimony,
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says Saint Augustine, is an iron chain. A man can
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sell a house which he has bought if he does
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not suit him, but once married, he cannot get rid
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of his wife. A soul can separate from the body
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sooner than the husband from the wife. And if either
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party should contract a second marriage while the others still alive,
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he or she commits a mortal sin and the marriage
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is invalid. It is, however, possible for a married couple
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to be separated, provided there are sufficient grounds for separation.
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If either party is guilty of adultery, then separation may
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be for life, since there's a violation of the contract
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and the rights conferred by that contract or lost. Yet
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neither can enter a print of fresh espousal Matthew five
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thirty two. Dissolute conduct or cruelty on either side would
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afford a reason for a temporary separation, which must be judicial,
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And if the parties agree to cohabitate again, they can
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do so, it will the secretcy here. Yeah, well, I
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don't want to go. I'll go just one more sub
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sub chapter here, and we'll cut off for today and
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pick back up on the same topic next week. The
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grace is conferred in matrimony. A sacrament of matrimony confers
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upon Christians who embrace that state, both an increase of
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sanctifying grace, and, in addition, the special grace is necessary
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to enable them to discharge the duties required of them.
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These special graces annex the sacrament are one, the mutual
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affection of those who receive it is confirmed and sanctified. Two.
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Strength is given them to preserve inviolable fidelity to one
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another and bear with patient sye ills of life. For
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as soon as a man is married, he is no
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longer free as when he was single, no longer absolute
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master of his will, his time, his goods is per
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but he is in a measure dependent on the will
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of his wife. He wears the yoke. For marriage to
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Saint Andrews is a yoke. He who wears the yoke
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It wears a double yoke which rests on the necks
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of both husband and wife, obliging them to pull together.
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To this has added many trials such as ill healthed,
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the faults and failings of each other, which must be
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born with, which must be born with, troubles with the children,
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et cetera. Finally, grace is given to discharge the most
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important duty of all, that of bringing up children the
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fear and love of God. I'mhappy, though, says Pope Gregory
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the sixteenth, who enter upon the married state from merely
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earthly motives or for sensual gratification, and do not think
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of the graces and mysteries which this sacrament confers and represents.
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All Right, y'all, I Am going to wrap it up there.
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We will talk about impediments to matrimony. Well in next
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week we'll start with that. You know, and you're not
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actually allowed to marry each other. There are actually some
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pretty serious grounds for that, and that's one of the
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reasons that Catholics have to go to pre Mary little counseling.
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Believe denormous like six months of counseling before the priest
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will will marry you. First of all, he has to
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say okay legally under the church law and even in
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some cases under laws of the country, these two people
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can marry. They will, it's going to be a valid union.
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They're going to bring up their children as Catholics. It's
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going to be a valid sacrament. If he can't say that,
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the priests can not agree to marry somebody. And a
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lot of priests I've known seem to take that pret
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darn seriously. They see they see that as a good
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role that they have, and it's a very good thing.
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It's a very very good thing. That certainly was not
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the case at a certain Southern Baptist university that I attended,
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where people seem to change spouses as often as they
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bought a new pair of shoes or change their sucks,
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and they could still be ministers and professors and all that,
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and nobody had a problem with it. And when you say,
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but Jesus said that, they say, yeah, we don't believe that.
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Our doctrine says that divorce is okay. And you just
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like you just invalidated the word of God because your
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doctrine says this. You know, your doctrine doesn't agree with
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the Bible. No, we don't believe that our doctrine agrees
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with everything in the Bible. The Bible is the sole
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authority but here Jesus, we don't believe that you just
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you hit a brick wall. You hit a brick wall
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of illogic. It's just absolutely amazing. All right y'all anyway,
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have a great week and I'll talk to you next time.