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Document Details : Title: Divore et remariage Subtitle: Plaidoyer pour une différence Author(s): LACROIX, Xavier Journal: Marriage, Families & Spirituality Volume: 21 Issue: 1 Date: 2015 Pages: 60-68 DOI: 10.2143/INT.21.1.3087667 Abstract : Contrary to a widely held idea, the concepts of indissolubility and of forgiveness are not of the same order. It is possible to plead for both of these notions at once. That is what this article does. Indissolubility has foundations that are first and foremost 'natural', that is, of the order of reason. It also has scriptural and theological underpinnings. Similarly, the notion of 'forgiveness', even when conferred sacramentally, has foundations that are both human and Christian. As a consequence, the discipline applied to baptized Christians referred to as 'divorced and remarried' could, after a time of 'penance-privation', embark on a period of 'forgiveness-reconciliation' that would take into account both the principle of indissolubility and an essential understanding of human situations. |
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