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Recent content by lighthouse_hope

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    May God take charge of you

    or A Dios os encomiendo or Adiós I've spent the last few days without posting, following a few threads, having a thought at all this and, I'd love to be banned in CF for my own good. I am not posting this on GT because I am convinced that almost nobody will care. I don't know if dialogue among...
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    Is an annulment better than a divorce?

    New wineskin, you have a point. That was pretty much the justification for the law of divorce if I can still remember that. Yet the fact is that the thing has exploded to the point there are more divorces than marriages. Of course it's a complex matter, but my main concern is Law and doctrine...
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    Is an annulment better than a divorce?

    Pray, Montalban, do you even know what's my point? Or is this a personal vendetta of sorts?
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    Is an annulment better than a divorce?

    Montalban, you can do whatever you want, but learning before you speak would be a good idea. Actually, Franco was already dead and the Constitution already in place when the first Law on divorce was passed. Disingenuous? In no way. And actually the ideology of the regime was...
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    I'm going to take one week off

    I'm taking a week off Christian Forums, it's eating too much of my time.
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    Is an annulment better than a divorce?

    Until I was 11 there were no divorces in Spain. Broken marriages were almost unheard of. That's no longer the case.
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    Is an annulment better than a divorce?

    So read, or get a book on Canon Law.
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    Minor Changes in Language Could Mean Major Changes in Religious Freedom

    In Spain, during the early 80's when I was a kid, I returned home to watch on the TV, on the single, state-owned channel that was available on my island, about the last weekly terrorist attack. On a few occasions it was even on my own island. In 1981, the 23th of February, Congress was...
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    Minor Changes in Language Could Mean Major Changes in Religious Freedom

    I don't believe I'm above your Constitution, I'm outside of it, but the Spanish is different, it's not perfect but it has got the job done. It will be reformed? Certainly. Future generations aren't asking me.
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    Is an annulment better than a divorce?

    cfr Book VII of the Code of Canon Law. Code of Canon Law
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    The Political Compass

    The government never steals when he gets your money to buy a tank. Ah but dare those commies to house the homeless!
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    Minor Changes in Language Could Mean Major Changes in Religious Freedom

    Note how I have deleted the rest of your quote. If you truly believe the USA is going to fascism or whatever that's up to you. I'd like to comment on your American myths. Those guys died long ago and you are not bound by anything they did intend, like er... slavery or Mr Jefferson's agrarian...
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    Is an annulment better than a divorce?

    OK, I'm leaving the field for the American Catholics, for I know little about the Church in America.
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    Is an annulment better than a divorce?

    I wouldn't try that in an actual court with a honest judge. To get divorced today does not imply you were not ready for marriage then. Psychological immaturity should be less than the one of a 16 years old. Of course, the spouses can pay a few "professionals" to procure the "evidence"...
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    Minor Changes in Language Could Mean Major Changes in Religious Freedom

    It's not dear leader, it's the Party which is always right. You have fallen into the "cult of the personality" pit :doh: