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Arcanum (On Christian Marriage) by Pope Leo XIII - 1880 (www.papalencyclicals.net)
posted 8 months ago by sparrow (+0 / -0 )
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WhatWouldMountainDew on scored.co
8 months ago 4 points (+1 / -0 / +3Score on mirror ) 1 child
> In like manner from the teaching of the Apostles we learn that the unity of marriage and its perpetual indissolubility, the indispensable conditions of its very origin, must, according to the command of Christ, be holy and inviolable without exception.


At least the Catholics understand the permanence of marriage (on paper anyway). This is an area where Protestants (even the conservative ones) are really weak and like to think they have drawn a hard line in the sand with the so-called "exception clauses" (adultery and abandonment) but in reality anything they have no standards because they'll say lust alone constitutes actual adultery and is grounds for a divorce and "abuse" (whether real or imagined) is somehow "abandonment".
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TakenusernameA on scored.co
8 months ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror ) 1 child
Protestant marriages are canonically invalid, thats why they are dissoluble. Honestly, the massive rate of divorce outside the Church while within the church its fairly low (though it should be zero) is probably evidence that Marriage *is* a holy sacrament.
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sparrow
8 months ago -1 points (+0 / -0 / -1Score on mirror )
> Protestant marriages are canonically invalid
 
If both parties are baptized validly I thought they were valid but illicit
 
> within the church its fairly low
 
I do not consider the Vatican 2 church to be the Catholic Church, however even accepting it as such for the sake of argument, there is a de facto divorce problem with doubtful "annulments", which have ballooned in number in the last maybe half century
 
However a lower divorce rate among such "Catholics" may also be due to there being the safeguards in place that there is a whole process to go through to be married as a "Catholic", and those who are unwilling to go through the trouble just wouldn't marry at all, whereas with protestants the barrier to "marriage" is probably much lower which also allows for a lower barrier for "divorce"
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