in the catholic church, we're all children

[rone]

Apparently, Chile is joining the third millennium by trying to pass a divorce law. Hell, they took longer than Colombia and Ireland! But, oh no, that's not OK with the Catholic Church! They want the law changed before it passes!

"One amendment the church is pressing would require a three-year wait even if couples agree to a divorce. If only one partner wanted to break up, the wait would be five years. The church also wants Chile's Catholics, before they marry, to be offered a chance to sign a legally binding pledge rejecting divorce."

Many things come to mind, but i'll just close by saying, this is fuckin' stupid. Fuck the Catholic Church and fuck their control-freakiness. If they're so worried about sin, they've got more pressing problems in their own house.

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[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

Many things come to mind, but i'll just close by saying, this is fuckin' stupid.

"The catholic church is fucking stupid."

Some days ago the SO gave me a copy of the catechism(sp?), and, while it all is a major PITA, there's no proper definition of anything in it, so, as I understand it, one is allowed to do pretty much anything anyway, other than the stuff the 10 commandments forbid directly. And there's no such thing as "thou shalt never divorce" in the commandments.

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[dawn-guy.livejournal.com]

this reminds me of a colleague's recent comment. it seems that after his kids were born in a legal marriage that lasted 9 years after a few years of living together, they're effectively bastards because his ex-wife converted to Catholicism and had their marriage annulled after the divorce.

the reason for the conversion and annullment? so she could get a teaching position at a Catholic school, in a school district where they don't allow divorced people to teach children.

Re: tangentially related

[2wanda.livejournal.com]

We considered being married in a Catholic church. Rone and I were both baptized as children, and raised in homes where one parent was Catholic, and the other not. In my case, my father was Catholic, in rone's, it was his mother. I was very concerned about pleasing my new mother-in-law, so I thought it important to get married in a church. My first marriage wasn't a Catholic marriage. When I found out that in order to marry rone in the church I would have to officially annul my first marriage with the church, making my four beautiful children illegitimate, of course I said, "Never mind." We were married in an Episcopal church, instead, simply because of its Catholic "look and feel", and the very cool and old church building with old stained glass which is St. Luke's in Los Gatos. As it turns out, the priest that married us couldn't even pronounce our last name, which nullified any attempt I made to please the in-laws. If I were to do it again, I'd get married in the mountains, under the redwoods.