![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first and more serious I can only mention here. Jesuit priest Giancarlo Pani, professor of Christian history at the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” recently published an essay in La Civiltà Cattolica entitled “ Matrimony and ‘Second Marriages’ at the Council of Trent.” In it, he defends the Greek matrimonial practice of “oikonomia” by which failed marriages can be dissolved and spouses permitted to remarry, or, what’s more often the case, to have their “new marriages declared valid” by the church “after penance.” He plainly hopes that this “tolerant tradition” may find its way into the Catholic Church.įor that aspiration, he claims no less an authority than the Council of Trent, which he believes implicitly sanctioned the Greek divorce practice in its canones de sacramento matrimonii. ![]()
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