Church Collapse as Divorced Catholics Forced out of the Church

Warracknabeal,

Vic 3393

Australia

19th July, 2024

His Holiness, Pope Francis

Saint Martha House

00120 Città del Vaticano, Vatican City.

Church Collapse as Divorced Catholics Forced out of the Church.

If Christianity Fails, Islam wins. We will have Sharia Law everywhere.

Dear Holy Father,

Love is good.  Helping others is good. Jesus says “Love thy Neighbour”.

Divorce is not good. For anyone.  Neither is being forced to live with a psychopath or narcissist for a lifetime in a bad marriage.  Or cheated upon. 2 Timothy 3:1-5 ends with “Keep away from people like that.”

We are “herd animals”. God designed us to be together. To be with others. However, I don’t think Jesus meant remarried divorced people to spend the entirety in hell, which is what the Church teaches.

The Church also teaches that taking the Eucharist as a divorced person is a mortal sin – punishable by eternality in hell. Effectively, the wronged partner is excommunicated or thrown out of the church.

No wonder, the numbers at Church are diminishing.  At my local church, perhaps only 40 people come on Sundays.  They are all old. Soon there will be none left. And there is no incentive for people to join the church.  Nor priests – ten of thousands who have left the church to marry.

If other Catholics have felt the same way, then I expect that more and more Catholics will leave the church.  As the Anglicans were forced to, so many hundreds of years ago, which resulted in the Church of England.

Holy Father, in Matthew 5:31–32, most Bibles say “excepting the cause of fornication” or similar but the Catholic bible says “unless the marriage is unlawful”.   

Can you change the Catholic bible back to say what the original Bible said, forgive the millions of Catholics in hell, and reinstate the possibly millions of Catholics who have been disconnected from the Church?

Can the Catholic Church practice the Greek oikonomia, and forgive marriage mistakes, and restore the Church?

And have married priests?

Yours faithfully,

Clement Victor Clarke

PS: Dear Holy Father, I was brought up by the Jesuits at Xavier College, Melbourne Australia.  Due to a divorce, I was effectively abandoned by the Church.  This was about 60 years ago.  I remarried in the Anglican Church, and have three wonderful children.

Furthermore, I am related to Saint Mary McKillop