Cohabitation
Cohabitation is when a man and a woman live as if they were married without having received the sacrament of marriage. Cohabitation is a crime before God, an abomination before the Church, and a scandal before society.
Civil Marriage
327. The so-called civil marriage is not a sacrament, nor a true marriage among Christians, but a formality established by the State to ensure civil effects for the married couple and their children.
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Since marriage is a Sacrament, its celebration among Christians is entirely outside civil jurisdiction. In Christian marriage, the contract cannot be separated from the Sacrament because marriage is the natural contract elevated by Jesus Christ to the dignity of a Sacrament. Therefore, there cannot be a true marriage that is not a Sacrament.
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For Christians, only religious marriage is valid, and those who do not marry in the Church are not married.
Therefore, the so-called civil marriage is not a valid marriage, and it is null even when considered as a simple contract. The Vicar of Jesus Christ on earth, Pope Pius IX, said this very clearly in an address with these words: "Any other union of a man and a woman, outside of the Sacrament, made under any civil law, is not marriage between Christians, and is absolutely condemned."
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328. – Christians who live together only civilly are in a state of continuous mortal sin. They must marry through the Church or separate, because if death catches them in this state, their souls will be condemned to hell for all eternity. The children of Christians who are united only civilly are illegitimate before God, before the Church, and before people of upright conscience.
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[Deuteronomy 23:2
“No illegitimate person shall enter the assembly of Yahweh, none of his descendants even to the tenth generation shall enter the assembly of Yahweh.”
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The Old Testament also says elsewhere that illegitimate children will testify against their parents in the trial (or the Assembly, I don’t remember)
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The rules are like that, they can’t be changed because God’s law is above men’s preferences.
Galatians 5:19–21
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, debauchery, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy, wrath, strife, divisions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and things like these: of which I tell you beforehand, as I also told you in time past, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
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Where the law requires it, the marriage must be registered in the civil registry, to grant and secure civil effects for the spouses and their offspring.
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But the Christian instructed in religious matters, when registering in the civil registry, does not intend to enter a civil marriage, but to fulfill a formality imposed by the law.
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The law of civil marriage, in the form established in some nations, is contrary to and offensive to the Catholic Religion.
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It is an insult to Catholics to force them to carry out civil marriage, since they can recognize no marriage other than the religious one.
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Only an ignorant or impious Catholic (the impious one is no longer a Catholic but a renegade) can recognize civil marriage as a true marriage. The State could, with reason, require that once the religious marriage is celebrated, it be immediately registered in the Civil Registry.
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But the State cannot, in any way, without offending the religious feelings of conscientious Catholics, consider the act of the Civil Registry as a celebration of marriage.
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Even in non-Catholic nations, if they respect freedom of conscience, the State should have no other requirement for Catholics than registering the marriage in the Civil Registry.
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Allowed and not allowed divorce, according to the civil law
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329.- Divorce cannot be admitted, because every validly celebrated marriage is indissoluble by natural law, and the marriage of Christians is also so by positive divine law.
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Christian law permits divorce only with regard to cohabitation, not regarding the bond.
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When the circumstances of the spouses are such that separation is necessary to avoid greater harm, then the church simply allows the separation, but does not permit either spouse to enter into a new marriage while the other is alive.
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The separation of spouses can also occur by mutual agreement, to better serve God, or for another just cause.
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Civil authority cannot undo the bond of Christian marriage, because it has no power over the matter of the Sacrament, nor can it separate what God has joined.
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Even if civil law allowed absolute divorce, that is, declared the marital bond broken, and allowed divorced people to enter into new marriages, Christian law would never permit it.
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Let's remember what Saint Jerome said to Oceanus: “Not according to civil laws will God judge you on the great day of account, but according to the laws that He Himself has given.”
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Our Lord Jesus Christ said: “The man who leaves his wife and takes another commits adultery. What God has joined, let no man separate” (Matt. XIX, 6 and 9)
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Absolute divorce leads to the complete ruin of marriage, and is the cause of countless individual and social evils.
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So, what should someone do if forced to separate from the spouse?
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Be patient and remember that this life is very short, and that whoever knows how to suffer and overcome passions will be rewarded eternally.
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The school
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It is Catholic Church doctrine that school, for Christians, must be Christian, that is, that it aligns in everything with what the Holy Religion commands. -- [But, what happens when the Holy Religion strays from the Holy Tradition, from what the Church has always been, and teaches children things that are mortal sin or heresy? There is some priest who advises not to take them to religion class, there is some mother who said that by sending her child to a public school, he almost lost his faith... Our Lady of the Roses tells us that children must be given a good religious education from their very early childhood. She said: Take them to a quiet corner of the house and there tell them the stories of the Bible. That the Bible should be read to them for 15 minutes before leaving the house every day or they will lose their faith and will break their parents' hearts. That we should not expect priests or nuns or catechists to give the religious instruction that children need. And we all know that children imitate what they see their parents do, not merely what they are told. Jesus Christ commands in the Messages: Daily Communion and Frequent Confession.
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In every school, whether private or public, religious instruction must be regarded as the most important.
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The Holy Mother Church has the right and duty to ensure that all her children receive proper religious instruction, and the practical means to achieve this is the Christian school.
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Few children will receive sufficient religious instruction if it is not given in school.
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The secular school
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Modern impiety does not want God to reign in society, and to prevent it, it has invented two truly diabolical means: the so-called civil marriage and the public school.
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So that God does not reign in the family, in the home, civil marriage grants the patent of true marriage to what, before religion, is an illicit and detestable union.
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So that God does not reign in the hearts of children, with the official secular school, God is banished from the school.
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To ensure that all children and young people pass through the mold of official atheism, every effort is made to persecute private schools, and even to openly or covertly seek their complete extinction.
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[The devil does it more covertly, introducing false Catholics who pose as catechists and give us crap instead of catechesis]
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The secular school is called such not because the teachers are secular, but because religion is completely disregarded in it; it is the atheist or Godless school.
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The Catholic Church condemns the secular school, whether private or state-run, for very just reasons.
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The state school, secular for everyone, constitutes an attack on freedom of conscience and justice.
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God is banished from the school.
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Indeed, Catholics are obliged to fund a school condemned by religion, and they have to send their children there, and if they want to educate them in a Christian school, they must pay twice for their education, which is a true injustice.
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With the secular school, children are educated without religious instruction, and, consequently, without religion.
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[Or worse, with teachers speaking to them about anti-Catholic doctrines]
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This is precisely what the defenders of the secular school intend, for such defenders are only the impious sectarians who wish to destroy religion, and they know that the great means to achieve this is a school without religion.
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Schools without religion are practically schools against religion; experience proves this.
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Generally, men are what they were in the schools they attended; since school shapes a person, schools without religion create men without religion.
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The examples and teachings of teachers without religion always pose a great danger to the faith of Christian children.
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Moreover, in texts and explanations about history and other sciences, false notions contrary to religion are easily introduced.
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Even if one teacher refrained from directly attacking religion, excluding God from school already constitutes a very serious crime, a disregard for religion, and an example of impiety that is extremely harmful.
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Yes, the secular school creates a generation of men without religion, and, consequently, without morals; because only religion can make a person truly moral.
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Every conscious Catholic should detest the secular school and do everything in their power to ensure that all schools teach to love and serve God.
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[Added:
^^The Council of Trent declared: « If anyone says that Marriage is not truly and properly one of the seven sacraments of the Gospel, instituted by Christ our Lord, but was invented by men within the Church; and that it does not confer grace; let him be excommunicated.> [First canon of the Sacrament of marriage], a.s.; Dz 971; cf. 969. As a sacrament for the living, marriage causes an increase of sanctifying grace by itself. The grace received through this sacrament is specially directed to the purpose of this sacrament: it serves to sanctify the spouses and give them the supernatural strength needed to fulfill the duties of their state. With sanctifying grace, they are also granted the right to actual graces «which they will receive whenever they are necessary to fulfill the duties of their state» (Pius XI); Dz 2237.^^
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That's right: God will help them in marriage to be faithful, to love each other with supernatural love, and to guide their children on the path of salvation. To help one another to be saints.
But it is a Sacrament for the living: the grace of this Sacrament is not received, it CANNOT be received, if one is not in a state of grace (knowing that he or she have sinned mortally).
Furthermore, it is clear that they must strive to be a truly Catholic family, in both words and deeds.
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Through the faith, prayers, and deeds of a believing spouse, it is possible to convert and save the other spouse who appeared one way before the marriage and ended up being a burden after the wedding. But marriage is ‘until death do us part’.
^^If one enters into marriage while not in a state of grace, the marriage is still valid—provided the requirements for it are met—but it ceases to be worthy and, above all, fruitful.
In any case, (...) , two points should be added. The first is that entering into marriage while not in a state of grace, although not a sacrilege, is regrettable. There will be no new sin, but if one is not in a state of grace, it is because previous sins persist; that is, one remains in a state of sin until one receives the sacrament of penance.
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Furthermore, as has already been pointed out, in terms of grace, that sacrament is fruitless, sterile (though, of course, one does receive the grace proper to marriage when one confesses afterward). The second point is that while it is not sacrilegious to receive the sacrament of marriage without being in a state of grace, it is certainly sacrilegious to receive the Eucharist in that state. In that situation, the couple cannot receive the Communion.^^]