Catholic Church - Civil Union?

1. The Church recognizes that governmental marriages are actual LEGAL marriages, but they are not sacramentally valid. In such a case, the couple is still "living in sin" because they have not contracted a permanent and sacred union with God. Couples who are married in the Catholic Church are married in two ways: the legal union and also a Sacramental union, which is a three-way contract between one man, one woman and God, witnessed by the Church.

2. The Church can neither allow nor ban anybody from receiving a civil union, because the Church is not the government and the Church does not control the government.

3. Your point that governmental marriages are not equal to sacramental marriages is very easily explained this way: a civil union is a legal contract between two consenting adults that creates legal obligation between the couple until the union is legally dissolved through a legal divorce. The Sacrament of Holy Matrimony, by contrast is a permanent moral and spiritual covenant (not contract) between one man, one woman and God, which creates a spiritual obligation between all three of them that cannot be dissolved at all, but only ends when one of the couple dies.

The Catholic Church recognizes secular law including legal contracts. So it recognizes a legal contract between two individuals that is a legal marriage (or civil union), even if the Catholic Church doesn't recognize it as a valid, sacramental marriage.

For example, the Catholic Church teaches that divorce does not end a valid sacramental marriage and so someone who is divorced cannot be validly married in the Catholic Church without an annulment. If someone is divorced and remarries without an annulment, the Catholic Church recognizes that it is a legal marriage even if it's not a valid sacramental marriage. The consequences for the couple are not legal in nature, but does affect their participation in the sacraments.

Does the Catholic Church recognize a governmental marriage as an actual marriage, or do they only recognize it if the church blesses the marriage? The Catholic Church recognizes marriages between a "man and a woman", civil union or otherwise. However, only marriages between two baptized Christians within the Catholic Church are recognized as a Sacrament.

And no the Catholic Church would not recognize the unions between a same sex couple because Christ does not recognize the unions between same sex couples as stated within Scripture.

They could be residing within the state of mortal sin, in order that they must no longer acquire the sacraments till they repent of the sinful habits. If their parish priest is aware of approximately their hindrance, he would suggest them approximately the right ethical instructing related to sexuality. They could no longer be capable to keep any public role within the Church on the grounds that they're straight appearing towards its teachings. And that could be the case for any one who publicly defies Church instructing. The Church can not say it is OK. Only our loopy technology of ethical relativism could attempt to say what they're doing is OK. It's no longer on the grounds that it is going a crime of God that may under no circumstances difference.

Catholics will only permit gay marriages if they are allowed to throw stones instead of rice. At the couple.

I ma not sure about the Catholic Church but in the Bible sex= marriage. If you have sex with someone then you are married to them.

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