Expert: Marco - 9/1/2010

Question
Hey Marco...

I have a question and I hope you can answer it... My fiance practices the Catholic religion... I myself am Baptist but am looking into converting to Catholicism before we wed. My question is.. I have been married and divorced previous to meeting my fiance. Will the Catholic church accept me even though I am divorced..?

Answer
Dear Brooke,

divorce is not allowed by the Catholic Church.
This means that a catholic person cannot marry a divorced person.
Jesus said in fact:

Mr 10:2 And the Pharisees came to him, and tested him, asking, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife?
10:3 And he answered and said to them, What did Moses command you?
10:4 And they said, Moses allowed a man to write a bill of divorce, and to put her away.
10:5 Jesus answered and said to them, Because of the hardness of your hearts he wrote you this commandment.
10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
10:7 For this reason shall a man leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife;
10:8 And the two shall be one flesh: so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.
10:9 Therefore, what God has joined together, let man not separate.
10:10 And in the house his disciples asked him again about the matter.
10:11 And he said to them, Whoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, commits adultery against her.
10:12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she commits adultery.
Lu 16:18 Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery: and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.


No remarriage is allowed.
Those who remarry after a divorce, live in adultery.

Your brother in Christ,

Marco

PS I think that faith cannot come only from logic, because to have faith in God means to trust and love God.
I think however that logics and science prove the existence of our soul and the existence of  God and that there are many rational arguments strongly supporting the christian faith.
The explanation of these aguments is rather long and Allexperts allows only to give short answers. You can find such arguments  in the following site

http://xoomer.alice.it/fedeescienza/englishnf.html

where  I analyse the incongruencies of the materialistic conception of the mind, on the basis of our present scientific knowledges about brain and matter.
This analysis points out how the laws of physics  prove that the   brain cannot generate consciousness, which existence implies  the presence in man of a unbiological/unmaterial element. The problem of consciousness is then strictly connected to the one of the existence of the soul and, consequently, the existence of God.
In the first article entitled “Mind and brain...” you can find a general discussion of the mind and brain problem from a scientific point of view.
In the second article entitled “Scientific contraddictions in materialism”
you  can find an explanation of the fundamental inconsistencies of  the  typical arguments used by materialists, such as the concept of emergent, macroscopic or holist property, complexity, information, etc.
In the section called “FAQ: answers to  visitors' questions” you can find the answer to many typical questions, such as "Are there any scientifically proved miracles?", "Does the existence of the universe imply the existence of God?", "Can science explain God?", "Can science establish which is the true religion?", "Can science explain consciousness in the future?", and many others.