Francis says half of marriages invalid., Slippery slope to divorce rites
If 50% of marriages are invalid, then, what I'd like to know is, why would it not seem reasonable for 50% of the annulments to be invalid, too?
Surely, once they've instituted 'divorce rites' then at LEAST 50% of THOSE will be invalid!
Surely you jest! Clearly, only marriages that fail were invalid in the first place while a marriage that does not fail is the only truly verifiable proof that the marriage was valid in the first place. Surely any thinking Modernist can see this.
I honestly think that a lot of the logic going into giving "divorce rights" is paving the way to:
giving the wink and nod to msm sodomite couples.
I don't know what you mean by "msm", but the preparatory docuмent on the Vatican's website specifically says that these are "concerns" which the October bishops' meeting is going to address:
...the widespread practice of cohabitation, which does not lead to marriage, and sometimes even excludes the idea of it, to same-sex unions between persons, who are, not infrequently, permitted to adopt children. The many new situations requiring the Church’s attention and pastoral care include: mixed or inter-religious marriages; the single-parent family; polygamy; marriages with the consequent problem of a dowry, sometimes understood as the purchase price of the woman; the caste system; a culture of non-commitment and a presumption that the marriage bond can be temporary; forms of feminism hostile to the Church; migration and the reformulation of the very concept of the family; relativist pluralism in the conception of marriage; the influence of the media on popular culture in its understanding of marriage and family life; underlying trends of thought in legislative proposals which devalue the idea of permanence and faithfulness in the marriage covenant; an increase in the practice of surrogate motherhood (wombs for hire); and new interpretations of what is considered a human right. Within the Church, faith in the sacramentality of marriage and the healing power of the Sacrament of Penance show signs of weakness or total abandonment.
I did notice that the introduction of the docuмent states that there will be a two-part meeting. The meeting this October is to "define the “
status quaestionis” and to collect the bishops’ experiences and proposals in proclaiming and living the Gospel of the Family in a credible manner" while there will be a second meeting in 2015 that will actually establish the "working guidelines in the pastoral care of the person and the family."
I'm not exactly sure what the meeting this October will do, but it may not actually provide for the destruction of the doctrines governing marriage. That may not come until 2015. Meanwhile, the docuмent in October will certainly indicate that is what is coming and the whole Conciliar establishment will act as if it has already happened in advance of the 2015 meeting.