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ASK FATHER: Baptized Catholic but never practiced: do marriage laws apply?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I have two younger brothers who are close in age and who were both baptized Catholic as babies. Very early in their life, when they were around 1 and 3 years old respectively,...
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Pope Francis v. Pope Francis about indissolubility and marriage
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...
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ASK FATHER: My husband abandoned me and our child
From a reader… QUAERITUR: It’s been a while since Ive been on WDTPRS but I need help. I am a convert, and converted after I married. We got some kind of dispensation to be “re” married in the Church,...
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Pope Francis’ General Audience on the divorced and remarried
Buy this if you haven’t already.If you have already bought it, buy more copies and give them to people. At his Wednesday General Audience, His Holiness Pope Francis spoke on the situation of the...
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Ongoing, post-Synod attempts to undermine indissolubility of marriage
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...
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A life lived and a request for prayers
In December, while I was leaving NYC, I asked you to pray for MaryAnn Hassan, mother of 8, battling cancer for many years. At that time I wrote: I ran into [MaryAnn’s] husband at the rectory before I...
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ASK FATHER: Future spouse doesn’t want kids to attend Novus Ordo, but I do.
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I am engaged to a girl who was raised attending a SSPX chapel her entire life. We will be married by a diocesan priest in the traditional form. She is unsure whether she can...
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“No one may share in the Eucharist except those who believe in the truth of...
A reading from the first apology of Justin Martyr in defense of the Christians, c. 100-165 No one may share in the Eucharist except those who believe in the truth of our teachings and have been washed...
View ArticleDouthat on The End of Catholic Marriage
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...
View ArticleWhat marriage is and what it isn’t
I have turned back the clock to June 2016 to find a post at the blog of canonist Ed Peters, who also – to our benefit – comments on these electronic pages. Peters breaks it down Barney style so that...
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Card. Müller: “a possible fraternal correction of the Pope seems to me to be...
UPDATE: Newly appended to the end of Pentin’s article on Card. Müller… Update 12 January 2016: A spokesman for Cardinal Müller told the Register that he was “speaking out of his authority as prefect of...
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New booklet by Cardinal asserted to be response to the Five Dubia of the Four...
In the shallow, liberal, Italian Catholic weekly Panorama we are informed about a booklet now out over the name of Card. Coccopalmerio, Prefect of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts. It is...
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Pope Francis provides for valid SSPX marriages
UPDATE 6 April: I want to make a point. Specific marriages (that is, involving real people not theoretical cases) are assumed to be valid, unless they are declared by a tribunal not to have taken...
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SSPX reaction to Pope Francis’ move on validity of marriages
In the wake of Pope Francis’ decision to have diocesan ordinaries see to validity of SSPX marriages (HERE) the SSPX issued a statement at their website (HERE) At first the SSPX communiqué rehashes what...
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ASK FATHER: About delegation and the proper form of SSPX marriages
From a reader… I recently read your post regarding the recently-announced changes to the validity of marriages witnessed by SSPX priests, and I am confused. How does this change anything? Doesn’t Canon...
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ASK FATHER: Two-phase wedding? First in church, then at the beach?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I have a question regarding the situation of two Catholics being married by an unapproved minister. Would any law prevent the couple from contacting the parish and explaining...
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Cri de Coeur from a Catholic married couple. Wherein Fr. Z rants from his heart.
I’m tired of the whine from certain homosexualists and their agenda, to the detriment of concerns of people to adhere to God’s plan and nature and many other serious concerns which we face as a Church...
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Expert canonist Ed Peters explains the sit to Matthew Boudway (Nihil habens)...
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...
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U.S. priest in L’Osservatore Romano promotes either dissoluble marriage or...
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...
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ASK FATHER: Is the “annulment” process in the US just a rubber stamp?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I have a quick question so I’ll keep this message short. Knowing several Catholics in my childrens’ Catholic school who have been divorced and remarried after getting an...
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