While promotes Justice. Advocacy group asks U.S. Church to enforce own divorce laws.

September 27, 2008 - 2:53 PDT

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Westlake, OH (SEPTEMBER 27, 2008) - "Pope Benedict XVI praised the Catholic program Retrouvaille for its dedication to helping couples overcome serious marital difficulties," according to an Italy Correspondent for Catholic News Service. "He said the people guiding the program are like 'custodians of a greater hope' that troubled couples need and have lost along the way."

But in America, an advocacy group is pleading with the Church to take action against divorce and protect the rights of children, loyal spouses, and all the faithful. Mary's Advocates is working to protect families from divorce. They are giving the Diocese of Rapid City copies of public records of a professed-Catholic wife and mother who initiated a no-fault divorce.

Spokesperson for Mary's Advocates, Bai Macfarlane, says, "The Catholic Church has canon law procedures for the separation of spouses that are the opposite of routine no-fault divorce. We want the diocese to do something to try to reconcile the marriage and prevent scandal. A Catholic wife and mother can't mutilate her family with no-fault divorce and remain in communion with the Church at the same time."

Their plea is being sent to Fr. Leo Hausmann (Judicial Vicar of the Diocese of Rapid City). To assist him in understanding the no-fault divorce process, Mary's Advocates is providing a copy of Stephen Baskerville's book, Taken Into Custody, the War Against Father, Marriage and the Family.

In a telephone interview, college professor Stephen Baskerville said, "It is clear from research that women file for most divorces and violence, abuse, and adultery by the husband are not present."

The magisterium teaches that divorce is immoral, introduces disorder into society, brings grave harm to the deserted spouse and children; divorce has contagious effects that make it truly a plague on society (Catechism 2385).

Pat Fagan, psychologist and Senior Fellow at the Family Research Council says, "For a husband, having one's children taken away by no-fault divorce, after being rejected by his wife is likely one of the worst psychological trauma a man can experience. It robs him of what is the most important purpose in many adults' lives. A father's natural instinct is to protect and raise his children, and stealing his children from him is a violation against both father and child."

Others are invited to join Mary's Advocates. In Colorado Springs, Mark Feliz was abandoned by his Catholic wife in 1997. "I never found anyone in my parish or diocese to teach my wife that abandoning our marriage was gravely immoral. Our parish priest was supportive of her decision to abandon me, wanted me to 'get on with my life' and implied that I have grounds for annulment." Mark has been a member of Mary's Advocates yahoo group for four years, and he says, "The only support I found for my marriage was from Mary's Advocates and non-Catholic ministries."

In their appeal to the Diocese of Rapid city, the Advocates conclude, "If the Church remains silent, others erroneously (though understandably) conclude the Catholic Church has no objection to a process that abducts children from a reliable spouse, forcing this spouse to pay support for a second household in which he is not allowed to live."

Letter to Dicocese of Rapid City and invitation to join in plea:
www.marysadvocates.org/advise/rapidcity.html

Catholic News Service:
www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0804905.htm

Source for Baskerville's Book, Taken into Custody
www.marysadvocates.org/shop/index.php?target=products&product_id=7

Contact

Mary's Advocates
http://www.marysadvocates.org
OH, 44145 US
Bai Macfarlane - Director, 440 871-5404

Keywords

Marriage, Divorce, Civil Rights Rally DC

Category

Catholic Organizations

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