http://www.catholicsun.org/2013/01/29/lack-of-faith-can-hurt-marriage-may-affect-validity-pope-says/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lack-of-faith-can-hurt-marriage-may-affect-validity-pope-says Sun, 19 May 2013 17:53:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.catholicsun.org/2013/01/29/lack-of-faith-can-hurt-marriage-may-affect-validity-pope-says/#comment-14790 DanCheshire Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:49:43 +0000 http://www.catholicsun.org/?p=6120#comment-14790 Uhm, last time I checked, divorce was a legal proceeding in this country. It will be interesting to see how this will affect American divorce courts, (who are already overloaded). Because the Pope decides to change the laws for all Catholics, does this mean that American divorce courts have to recognize this as a legitimate argument for divorce? And if so, how would someone go about proving/disproving whether someone was a religious believer? If they type an e-mail today saying they are not a believer but tomorrow claim to have been visited by Jesus Christ overnight, does this mean they are still guilty of a divorceable offense? Regardless of how they have acted, behaved, or what they have written, if they appear before a judge and swear on a Holy Bible that they believe in god, how can you disprove it? Do you try to burn them to see if god protects them? Does the Pope get to decide whethe husbands and wives are religious enough to remain married? People say things in public they don’t mean all the time. If someone swears on a bible that they are a believer, I suspect there is no way to prove otherwise.

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