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The great majority of Christian denominations affirm that marriage is intended as a lifelong covenant, but vary in their response to its dissolubility through divorce. The Catholic Church treats all consummated sacramental marriages as permanent during the life of the spouses, and therefore does not allow remarriage after a divorce if the other spouse still lives and the marriage has not been ...
The 1994 letter of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Letter to the Bishops of The Catholic Church Concerning the Reception of Holy Communion by the Divorced and Remarried Members of the Faithful, states that persons who have divorced and remarried cannot receive the sacraments of Penance and Holy Communion unless, where they ...
The Eastern Orthodox Church does recognize that there are occasions when couples should separate, and permit remarriage in Church, [19] though its divorce rules are stricter than civil divorce in most countries. For the Eastern Orthodox, the marriage is "indissoluble" as in it should not be broken, the violation of such a union, perceived as ...
Thus, permitting remarriage is an act of compassion of the Church towards sinful man. [142] Under the influence of the Catholic Church, the divorce rate had been greatly reduced by the 9th or 10th century, [143] which considered marriage a sacrament instituted by Jesus Christ and indissoluble by mere human action. [144]
Marriage in the Catholic Church, also known as holy matrimony, is the "covenant by which a man and woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring", and which "has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament between the baptized". [1]
The Catholic Church holds that marriage is a sacrament creating an indissoluble union between one man and one woman. [4] While the Catholic Church allows for the possibility of separation from a marriage in certain cases, [5] it does not recognize the validity of a subsequent marriage unless a declaration of nullity has been obtained regarding the first marriage [6] or the first spouse is ...
For example, from 1937 until 1995, divorce and remarriage was not permitted (in line with Catholic views of marriage). [note 4] Similarly, pornography, abortion, and contraception [note 5] were also resisted; media depictions perceived to be detrimental to public morality were also opposed by Catholics. In addition, the church largely ...
The Catholic Church doesn't, and never has, held that divorce, in and of itself, is immoral, but that remarriage after a divorce is, as it is adultery. The Church holds that divorce is a purely secular and civil matter, solely dissolving the legal obligations a man and wife have to one another, but leaving unaffected their spiritual union.