@Emma506131772 Close, but incorrect. A marriage that has be consented to, but not consummated, is still presumed to be valid. An unconsummated marriage can be dissolved as a favor granted by the Pope.
@TheCatholicEngr True. I've received compliments for simply wearing a suit I bought a Walmart for a job interview almost twenty years ago. It's not great, but the bar is low.
@SpesMagnaMark@melodymlyons I think it was at Trent that they attached an anathema to those who didn't fulfill their lenten duty of going to at least one K.C. fish fry or , that being impossible, eating two Filet o' Fish.
@NEMonarchist The authorization can only come in the context of regularization and reconciliation. From a sacramental standpoint, Rome cannot stop the propagation of these rogue clergy. What Rome does control is legitimacy of episcopal governance. That is what the Society will always lack.
@BradRTorgersen Jackson and co. did not understand nobility and heroism and so butchered most of the characters. What saved the trilogy is Weta's masterful world building.
@mjarman775@MDLatinMass The dispensation is from the obligation to attend under penalty of sin. The masses aren't cancelled. Unless there is a supplemental decree the pastors still are required to offer the Sunday mass pro populo.
@pureMetatron For a man who doesn't like others putting words in his mouth, you seem willing to do it to the Pope. This could easily be seen as a paraphrase of St. Paul's description of Christ in Gal 3:28.
You don't have to like him, but you do need to maintain your intellectual integrity.
@AuthorErwin@MorgonAuthor The medical definition of infertility is a couple not being able to conceive after trying to for 12 consecutive months. It can be permanent or it can be transitory, and it can occur subsequent to having children.