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Originally posted by maleficent
Nope you don't get excommunicated, you just can't recieve any of the other sacraments, including, technically, marriage - or at least getting married in a Catholic Church.
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Again, depends on who you talk to. Just another example of the fact there are good leaders in the Catholic Church (and any church for that matter) and there are bad leaders.
My mom had a previous marriage before my dad and it was never annuled. One Catholic priest wouldn't marry my parents. So, they found one who would
The Catholic Church tends to be extremely ambiguous about a lot of things, and intentionally so, otherwise things aren't open to revision in the future as our understanding of the world changes. Of course, the changes take time in the first place due to people's natural reaction against change. Just like, even though the Catholic Church has supported the theory of evolution for something like 75 years now, I still can't convince my 50+ year old mom about the fact or why it makes sense. People resist change. Religion itself does not. It's all about getting beyond the limitations of other people.
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Originally posted by Halx
How could this develop into anything more than a religious bashing thread? I think it speaks volumes about the clash of science and religion. It's a catch-22 for the church. You either do the LOGICAL thing and bend the rules a bit, thus invalidating age-old law, or you stick to the hard law and look like a really bad example of what faith 'should' be. Just another crack in the fascade.
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See, and that's just the thing. A lot of the "age-old laws" have already been invalidated to varying degrees about 40 years ago. It's the people IN the church resisting it, not the religion itself. If one reads the statements of the church from Vatican II and draws conclusions from things like that and not from what people in the church say and do, it's clear that there is an undercurrent of tolerance and acceptance throughout the church.