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If divorce is in the Bible, why is the Catholic church against it?



      

Matthew 5:31 - 32

ESV - 31 "It was also said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.' 32 But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

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Stringio Vincent Mercado Supporter Skeptic turned believer, Catholic, father of 3
The Lord Jesus insisted on the original intention of the Creator who willed that marriage be indissoluble.(Cf. Mt 5:31-32; 19:3-9; Mk 10:9; Lk 16:18; 1 Cor 7:10-ll.) He abrogates the accommodations that had slipped into the old Law.

The separation of spouses while maintaining the marriage bond can be legitimate in certain cases provided for by canon law.

Divorce is a grave offense against the natural law. It claims to break the contract, to which the spouses freely consented, to live with each other till death. Contracting a new union, even if it is recognized by civil law, adds to the gravity of the rupture: the remarried spouse is then in a situation of public and permanent adultery: If a husband, separated from his wife, approaches another woman, he is an adulterer because he makes that woman commit adultery, and the woman who lives with him is an adulteress, because she has drawn another's husband to herself.

Divorce is immoral also because it introduces disorder into the family and into society. This disorder brings grave harm to the deserted spouse, to children traumatized by the separation of their parents and often torn between them, and because of its contagious effect which makes it truly a plague on society.

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