A Synod of Bishops is about to begin in Rome and will address the issues of marriage and family.  One of the issues to be discussed is whether divorced Catholics can receive the seven sacraments.  Although the church should not and will not ever endorse divorce, the issue must be addressed. The divorce rate is about 50% of all marriages including church going couples.  To exclude and ostracize that many Catholics explains one of several reasons why these non-denominational evangelical mega stadium churches are reaching these sizes. Is divorce completely prohibited?  Even Christ mentioned the old law of allowing a spouse to write a bill of divorce for adultery. Let those without sin throw the first stone.

Back when the church was forming just after Jesus’ death and persecution of Christians was begun by the Romans, many Christians worshiped roman gods to avoid death.  Worshiping idols is a violation of the Ten Commandments, just as serious if not more serious than the dissolution of marriage. Yet the fathers of the church allowed these violators to return to the church after a period of penance.  Cannon 11 of the First Council of Nicaea in the year 325 A.D. has your answer.  It states:

“Concerning those who have fallen without compulsion, without the spoiling of their property, without danger or the like, as happened during the tyranny of Licinius, the Synod declares that, though they have deserved no clemency, they shall be dealt with mercifully. As many as were communicants, if they heartily repent, shall pass three years among the hearers; for seven years they shall be prostrators; and for two years they shall communicate with the people in prayers, but without oblation.”

Divorce and homosexuality, just as adultery, theft, lying, covetness and idolatry are sins.  God forgives us sinners after a period of penance.  They must be allowed back into full sacramental participation after a period of penance. Divorcees should go through a year of catechism and for two years should communicate with the people in prayer, but without oblation.  Annulment in the church is a sham. There are so many reason for annulment especially Cannon 1099 (belief that marriage was only a civil contract).  If you were not married in a catholic church one can get an annulment, yet with a Catholic Church marriage, one cannot. (Canons 1157, 1160)  Why punish the practicing catholic more severely than the non-practicing catholic.  If you let them go through a period of penance these newly evangelized may stay married the second time.

My question is this?  Are the radical Muslims using ebola as a weapon?  Was Thomas Eric Duncan's death, the Texas Ebola patient, planned?  Was he a Muslim?  What easier way to wage jihad against America then by sending thousands of infected jihadist across our unprotected borders to create an epidemic of death here in the United States.  We need to seal the Mexican border and prevent all fights from Africa now.

Here are two descriptions of vineyards, one in the old testament and one in the new.
    A song, now, in honour of one that is my good friend; a song about a near kinsman of mine, and the vineyard that he had. This friend, that I love well, had a vineyard in a corner of his ground,[1] all fruitfulness. 2 He fenced it in, and cleared it of stones, and planted a choice vine there; built a tower, too, in the middle, and set up a wine-press in it. Then he waited for grapes to grow on it, and it bore wild grapes instead. 3 And now, citizens of Jerusalem, and all you men of Juda, I call upon you to give award between my vineyard and me. 4 What more could I have done for it? What say you of the wild grapes it bore, instead of the grapes I looked for? 5 Let me tell you, then, what I mean to do to this vineyard of mine. I mean to rob it of its hedge, so that all can plunder it, to break down its wall, so that it will be trodden under foot. 6 I mean to make waste-land of it; no more pruning and digging; only briars and thorns will grow there, and I will forbid the clouds to water it. 7 Alas, it is the house of Israel that the Lord called his vineyard; the men of Juda are the plot he loved so. He looked to find right reason there, and all was treason; to find plain dealing, and he heard only the plaint of the oppressed. Is 5:1-7
    Listen to another parable. There was a rich man who planted a vineyard; he walled it in, and dug a wine-press and built a tower in it, and then let it out to some vine-dressers, while he went on his travels. 34 When vintage-time drew near, he sent his own servants on an errand to the vine-dressers, to claim its revenues. 35 Whereupon the vine-dressers laid hands upon his servants; one they beat, one they killed outright, one they stoned. 36 And he sent other servants on a second errand, more than he had sent at first, but they were used no better. 37 After that, he sent his own son to them; They will have reverence, he said, for my son. 38 But when the vine-dressers found his son coming to them, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and seize upon the inheritance. 39 And they laid hands on him, thrust him out from the vineyard, and killed him. 40 And now, what will the owner of the vineyard do to those vine-dressers when he returns? 41 They said, He will bring those wretches to a wretched end, and will let out the vineyard to other vine-dressers, who will pay him his due when the season comes. 42 And Jesus said to them, Have you never read those words in the scriptures, The very stone which the builders rejected has become the chief stone at the corner; this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?[7] 43 I tell you, then, that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and given to a people which yields the revenues that belong to it.Mt 21:33-43

Do you see what these vineyards represent?   Both Isiah and Jesus, when they spoke of a vineyard, were refering to the Kingdom of God established here on earth.  The Jews in the Old testament failed at tending the Kingdom and Isiah predicted that they would fall.  Jesus likewise described a Kingdom in which the workers rebeled against the owner, God.  But instead of destroying the workers in the Kingdom, the rebellious Jews would have a chance at repentence.  The owner, God, would send His own son, who the Jews would kill.  The Kingdom will be given to the Gentiles as retribution.