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Offline Aleah

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Divorced and Remarried Non-Catholics
« on: April 30, 2017, 06:33:45 AM »
I have a neighbor who is married to a man that was married before (her first marriage and his second). She has asked that we go out to dinner or have dinner at my house as couples.

How would you address that?  As a Catholic I would consider the first marriage valid but as non-Catholics- they would not.  I know they are Christians but I don't believe they practice any kind of faith in general.

Would you go out to dinner with them or have them at your house but not go to theirs or just not go out at all?

Thoughts?
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Offline Last Tradhican

Re: Divorced and Remarried Non-Catholics
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2017, 12:15:03 PM »
If they are not Catholic, and it is just you and your husband involved, I don't see a problem, as long as you are there as good  examples to convert them. However, I would not get all that chummy with them because they are living in sin.

In truth only Catholics can rightly call themselves Christians. I would rather refer to non-Catholics who believe in Christ as Protestants or Eastern Orthodox. Calling them Christians belittles the title.
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Offline 1st Mansion Tenant

Re: Divorced and Remarried Non-Catholics
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2017, 08:04:52 PM »
Unless I am mistaken, if they are Catholic and living in a brother-sister type relationship (celibate), even if previously divorced,  then they can receive communion and aren't in mortal sin.  Whether that is  the case or not, I don't suppose you would have much of a way of knowing without their having seen fit to confide it to you. Things aren't always as they appear.
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Offline sedevacantist3

Re: Divorced and Remarried Non-Catholics
« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2017, 08:22:31 PM »
Quote from: Aleah on April 30, 2017, 06:33:45 AM
I have a neighbor who is married to a man that was married before (her first marriage and his second). She has asked that we go out to dinner or have dinner at my house as couples.

How would you address that?  As a Catholic I would consider the first marriage valid but as non-Catholics- they would not.  I know they are Christians but I don't believe they practice any kind of faith in general.

Would you go out to dinner with them or have them at your house but not go to theirs or just not go out at all?

Thoughts?
Jesus had dinner with sinners, we should follow his  lead  and show the pagans how to behave like Christians and hope they convert. I have to deal with in laws who are pagans like your neighbor, I'm surrounded by pagans everywhere and unless i escape to the desert I will have dinners and get togethers with them. I don't believe we shouldn't go their weddings though, there's a  thread on that very subject.
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Offline congaudeant

Re: Divorced and Remarried Non-Catholics
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2017, 05:12:12 PM »
Quote from: 1st Mansion Tenant on May 07, 2017, 08:04:52 PM
Unless I am mistaken, if they are Catholic and living in a brother-sister type relationship (celibate), even if previously divorced,  then they can receive communion and aren't in mortal sin.  Whether that is  the case or not, I don't suppose you would have much of a way of knowing without their having seen fit to confide it to you. Things aren't always as they appear.
With all the Amoris Laetitia controversy being discussed as of late, there has been some allusion in the discussions to this brother-sister type of relationship. Yet, I've never known anyone who has been in such a relationship. Is this form of relationship very common in certain parts of the world?
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