Is remarriage after divorce without receiving an annulment a mortal sin?

Answer 1

Yes, unless the ex is dead.

Answer 2

This certainly looks like a catholic question so I will reply that way. For Catholics (and obstensively, all Christians) getting married involves 2 contracts (binding agreements) between willing partners. One civil and one religious.

Traditionally, the answer is yes because w/o an annulment you had a legitimate and valid first marriage (meaning to say that the contract between the wife and husband was religiously legal).

Getting a civil divorce of the first marriage just dissolves the civil contract. The religious contract is intact so remarriage means fornication and therefore sin.

Getting an annulment means that the religious contract never took place, in the first place i.e. no marriage ever took place between the man and the woman. The reasons for this are numerous some of which are based on:
The intention to be faithful throughout the marriage,
The willingness to at least allow for the possibility of children,
The fact that each of you was entering the contract 100% freely,
That there were not any other psychology factors about one or both of your personalities that if known at the time of the marriage would have presented an impediment (a serious stumbling block) to the marriage.

With an annulment in-hand that paves the way for a 2nd civil marriage being OK in the church because actually this 2nd marriage will be recognized by the church as the only the first religious marriage since the first was declared null and void i.e. annulment. AND THEREFORE NO FORNICATION AND NO MORTAL SIN.

Now the logical conclusion that follows is extremely important so please understand it and note that most right-thinking moralists will admit to it: if you get an annulment that means that you had been FORNICATING all throughout your "marriage" with your husband because you were NOT MARRIED according to the church. But because you DID NOT THINK you were committing a sin, therefore you were not committing a sin. (Now the onus is on you to be forthright in your opinions about your own morality, i.e. you can’t play the morality shuffle game with God.)

In the late 1970’s the Catholic Church in the United States, being sympathetic to the plight of the rising number of divorce Catholics feeling alienated from their church and remarried Catholics feeling like 2nd class citizens when it came to not being able to receive communion. (I.e. because they were FORNICATING with their new wives/husbands and could not be forgiven for it in the confessional because how could they be truly sorry for something that they admittedly were going to continue to do.), requested and received a papal dispensation to expedite the annulment procedures. Remember each and every annulment back then had to be thoroughly investigated and then be approved/disapprove by a board in Rome.

Thus started up numerous SEPARATED AND DIVORCE CATHOLIC organizations in many dioceses across the country which still exist to this day. Did you know that on more than one occasion and from more than one source I was told that if I did NOT like the answer I got from one priest about THE MORAL DILEMMA POSED IN YOUR QUESTION that I should shop around for a more suitable answer from another priest. NOW HEY THAT’S WHAT I LIKE, CONSUMER-ORIENTED RELIGION. SHOP AROUND BEFORE YOU BUY TO GET THE BEST COMMANDMENT INTERPRETATION FOR YOU. (that must have been why Moses destroyed that first set of commandment tables, they were not written to his tastes!!!)

Gee, us Catholics have finally caught up with and surpassed the Jews in making our religion more LEGALISTIC than theirs. HURRAH FOR US! Maybe that means the purpose of Jesus’ 2nd return is to STRAIGHTEN US CATHOLICS out!

CHRIST SAID THERE ARE ONLY 2 COMMANDMENTS TO OBEY. LOVE GOD WITH YOUR WHOLE MIND, HEART AND STRENGTH. AND THEN LOVE EVERYBODY ELSE LIKE YOU LOVE YOURSELF.

SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND EVERTHING ELSE WILL BE ADDED UNTO THEE.

If you can make the 2 scriptures above a focus in your life I would say DON’T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF!

God loves you and hates the bs.

Answer 3

NO in Islam, remarriage after divorce isn't a sin, & divorce isn't a sin (Muhammed (PBUH) informed us that divorcing isn't a sin & also its no longer a sturdy answer for both husband & spouse, & the problem of divorcing get more desirable complicated in the journey that they have got youngsters) yet in Islam after divorcing, the female ought to stay 3 mounths & 10 days then after that era she is loose to marry back ( & thats becouse if she became pragnant from the first guy, she continues to be that era as a thanks to be positive that she isn't pragnant, becouse if she became pragnant then the arriving infant would make some issues between the female, her ex-husband & her new husband), so she will be able to marry the subsequent guy effectively, so the female ought to continues to be that era previously marriage even with the undeniable fact that the guy ofcource is loose to marry any time he want after divorcing, becouse guy won't be able to be pragnent ofcourse i desire u were given ur factor from my rationalization

Answer 4

No, it's not a mortal sin. The law you break is a man-made law, not even close to being in the Top Ten (commandments). If you feel bad about it, ask your priest how to make it right with the church.

The Catholic church will "bless" your new marriage under certain conditions.

Answer 5

Remarriage is very common.I don't think so you shld take it has a mortal sin/Live for yourself if you feel that you need a shoulder to cry and walk by yourside.Go ahead.Don't be scared to be bold.

Answer 6

I believe that divorce itself is a mortal sin!

Answer 7

Depends on your religion. I think that some people remarrying after a divorce is a miracle... so maybe in that case no.

Answer 8

IF THE MARRIAGE WAS ANNULED YOU DONT HAVE ONE THE DIV ORCE IS A LEGAL THING....REMARRIAGE IS NEVER WRONG....WE ARE MORTALS....WE MAKE MISTAKES....NOT SIN

Answer 9

Yes you will burn baby burn, but it won't be a disco inferno no no.,
We are talking fire and brimstone not the Bee Gees and mirror balls.
Instead of hot chicks wearing slinky dresses without bras, you get the devil with his pitch fork poking at you poking at you.
You deserve to know the truth.

Answer 10

That's for you to decide and no-one else; there is no reference to that issue in religeous text other than to reinforce the then Jewish practice.
you are acting within the current law to make you and your partner happy, and that's all that matters.

Good Luck!

Answer 11

well lets see I was divorced and am now remarried and I haven't been struck by lighting so ..... form your own thoughts on the issue. Happy to be a persecuted agnostic.