Sham Marriages facilitated by the Catholic Church
In Ireland each year up to 7,000 Irish women and female children travel to England to terminate the life of their unborn children, under the rules of the Catholic Church, anyone who terminates, or facilitates the termination of the life of an unborn child have committed a reserved sin.
Under the unbreakable rules of the Catholic Church, anyone guilty of committing or facilitating a Reserved sin are by their actions automatically excommunicated from the Catholic Church.
Excommunication means that a person so excommunicated cannot lawfully participate in any sacrament in the Catholic Church; they are banned from confession, communion, marriage and any other associated activity that is the Catholic Church.
It is estimated that there are over 50,000 Sham marriages in Ireland, those are marriages when one or either partner have committed a reserved sin by committing or facilitating the destruction of the life of an unborn child.
These marriages have no legal entity as they were brought together by way of fraud.
The children from these sham marriages are illegitimate in the eyes of the law.
APA citation. Fanning, W. (1911). Reserved Cases. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved November 4, 2011 from New Advent: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12785a.htm
MLA citation. Fanning, William. "Reserved Cases." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 12. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. 4 Nov. 2011 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12785a.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by WGKofron. With thanks to St. Mary's Church, Akron, Ohio.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. June 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
