full of some tough things. There are some things I would dispute, but that's everyone's right. I have always been wary of the Church's position on a lot of things regarding marriage...Breaking Vows: When Faithful Catholics Divorce
I know of a person who was almost destroyed when a priest whom he admired greatly, and who was his spiritual director, told him, when his horrible marriage collapsed and died, that the priest had had such great hopes for him, and that he had been on his way to becoming a saint, until he ended his marriage. What is that all about? 'You were doing so well holding together, by yourself, an emotionally, and slowly becoming physically, abusive marriage, that you were becoming a saint. Now that's over and you can never be one.' What a terrible thing to tell a person! It's outrageous, and set this person back emotionally and spiritually for years.
Our Church's position on marriage, when fully understood, may be valid and somewhat remarkable in our current cultural situation, but the Church's representatives have to learn that they're dealing with human beings and not robots. The Church has always been really bad at that, or at least it hasn't taught its priests and religious how to properly deal with these things...
As usual, the comments are interesting. As usual, reading them can get you more worked up than reading the article.
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