Question about Divorce in Churches?

Question

I know that in reality you can get divorced in the evangelical church for any reason you like. It might be discourages per se but in reality, you get divorced, repent, remarry and no one cares as long as you tithe.

The official position is the only way to get divorced and remarry is for the other person to have committed adultery.

Is that the same as the Catholic Chruch as far as I understand in the Catholic Church you can get divorced but there is no way ever (even if the other person commits adultery) that you can remarry while they are alive.

Is that correct.

Answer 1

Divorce is a civil matter not a religious one. A marriage contract is binding under law unless dissolved by a divorce. Different religions have different attitudes towards divorce. Some will accept divorce within the church and will allow the people to remarry. The Catholic Church does not accept divorce but will grant an annulment of the marriage. The marriage tribunal examines the circumstances of the marriage to decide if both parties went into it with the right attitude and knowledge. If there is some fault in the original marriage, it can be annulled.

This happens quite frequently and the tribunal is sympathetic to people and helps wherever it can, it knows people are only human. People who have had their marriages annulled are free to marry in the church but they must also go through a civil divorce before they do so otherwise they will be guilty of bigamy by law even if not by the church.

Answer 2

Hold the phone. "You can get a divorce, remarry and no one cares as long as you tithe"? Now, where did this come from?

The bible says that adultery, or desertion, is the only biblical reason for divorce. If a person divorces for any other reason they are not to remarry...according to the bible.

I am a divorced woman, that's why I know this. "A woman is not to leave her husband, but if she does, she should either be reconciled to her husband, or remain unmarried". My husband and I tried reconciling many times. I could not stand being with him, for reasons I will not elaborate. My divorce was not sanctioned by the bible.

For that reason, I will not remarry. I don't know where you got this tithing thing. And why would the Catholic church be any different....if they follow scripture?

Answer 3

The RC Church says "Separation" may be necessary but the marriage is still entact. You can re-marry, but in doing so, a RC should give up the Eucharist while remaining in a perpetual state of adultry. Yes, the "natural" death of the spouse allows re-marriage without damaging the sanctity of marriage. You can't have that spouse killed like Henry the 8th did.

"Divorce

2382 The Lord Jesus insisted on the original intention of the Creator who willed that marriage be indissoluble.< Cf. Mt 5:31-32; 19:3-9; Mk 10:9; Lk 16:18; 1 Cor 7:10-ll.> He abrogates the accommodations that had slipped into the old Law. < Cf. Mt 19:7-9. >

Between the baptized, "a ratified and consummated marriage cannot be dissolved by any human power or for any reason other than death."

2383 The separation of spouses while maintaining the marriage bond can be legitimate in certain cases provided for by canon law.

If civil divorce remains the only possible way of ensuring certain legal rights, the care of the children, or the protection of inheritance, it can be tolerated and does not constitute a moral offense.

2384 Divorce is a grave offense against the natural law. It claims to break the contract, to which the spouses freely consented, to live with each other till death. Divorce does injury to the covenant of salvation, of which sacramental marriage is the sign. Contracting a new union, even if it is recognized by civil law, adds to the gravity of the rupture: the remarried spouse is then in a situation of public and permanent adultery:


If a husband, separated from his wife, approaches another woman, he is an adulterer because he makes that woman commit adultery, and the woman who lives with him is an adulteress, because she has drawn another's husband to herself.

2385 Divorce is immoral also because it introduces disorder into the family and into society. This disorder brings grave harm to the deserted spouse, to children traumatized by the separation of their parents and often torn between them, and because of its contagious effect which makes it truly a plague on society.

2386 It can happen that one of the spouses is the innocent victim of a divorce decreed by civil law; this spouse therefore has not contravened the moral law. There is a considerable difference between a spouse who has sincerely tried to be faithful to the sacrament of marriage and is unjustly abandoned, and one who through his own grave fault destroys a canonically valid marriage. .