Expert: Fr. Michael - 8/25/2009

Question
Hello,
A Jewish man married a Catholic woman, and this 24yr marriage was supposedly blessed by rabbi and priest. They had a child who was brought up Jewish, and now they are divorcing, - the Jewish man is in RCIA to convert to Catholicism, and wants to eventually remarry in the Catholic church.  He wants his marriage dissolved, and the Catholic woman is indifferent.  The priest who blessed the union knew the child would be raised Jewish, so that is a question in itself.  Can this marriage be dissolved, even though it's the unbaptized person who is instigating the disssolution once he is baptized?  This is a most unusual case.  I don't know if the woman got a dispensation to marry the Jew in the first place, - I doubt it.  Also, the woman has refused sexual relations with the husband for twelve years now.

Answer
You are not speaking of the traditional Catholic Church, but of the New Order sect that has taken over in many places, which is more like a Protestant sect.  RCIA is a New Order sect programme that teaches many unCatholic principles.

As you say, there is certainly something quite objectionable about all of this.  The Jewish man claims to want to become Catholic, and the first thing that he contemplates is a scandalous and immoral act of taking a "second" wife, which is directly contrary to the teaching of Our Lord, as recorded in all four Gospels!

Try to get him spiritual help from a traditional Catholic priest.  He desperately needs it!  There is a geographical list at www.traditio.com/nat.htm.