Madam, - As a Catholic, you can be a member of a paramilitary organisation, an armed robber, the killer of an innocent Garda,leaving a widow and five orphans, and still be afforded a full church wedding presided over by nothing less than a monsignor - a domestic prelate to His Holiness the Pope!
However, if you are a Catholic who is culpably or non-culpably the casualty of a failed marriage, there is no forgiveness and not even a simple blessing should providence and/or Cupid bestow the prayed-for second chance!
Does the Pearse McCauley wedding not prove that Canon Law is the ass many of us know it to be? - Yours, etc.,
Bishop PAT BUCKLEY,
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The Oratory,
Larne,
Co Antrim.