Divorce: a failure of forgiveness

Anthony Esolen, Crisis

Friday, February 12, 2021

We have been warned of our sin, warned against hardness of heart, forbidden by the Lord himself to divorce, and invited to the great wedding feast of Christ and his Church. How shall we then invert the whole structure of salvation? “Christ will not divorce me,” says the sinner, “but I am going to divorce you.” The presumption is staggering.
 

 

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