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guillaumeb

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Tue May 2, 2017, 01:59 PM May 2017

Marriage and divorce: The limits of the Roman Catholic mind

From the article:

The conservative resistance to Pope Francis has circled its firing squad around Amoris Laetitia, the year-old apostolic exhortation that opens the door to communion for divorced and remarried Catholics.........

The concept is oikonomia, Greek for household management (economy), and as developed by the Cappadocian fathers of the fourth century it expresses Christianity’s profound insight into the flawed nature of humanity and the fallen condition of this world.
This provides the rationale for permitting second (and third) marriages in Eastern Orthodoxy. While affirming the Christian ideal of marriage as indissoluble, the Orthodox recognize that sometimes marriages become broken, and provide a path for the parties to remarry within the church in a ceremony that is penitential.


http://religionnews.com/2017/04/28/marriage-and-divorce-the-limits-of-the-roman-catholic-mind/
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Marriage and divorce: The limits of the Roman Catholic mind (Original Post) guillaumeb May 2017 OP
Such a toxic view if marriage -nt Bradical79 May 2017 #1
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