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Interesting point to which I have no "definitive" response. This, also taken
from Cath En, seems to contradict your supposition that the married person
commits adultery but the single, fornication: "Considering now the act in
itself, adultery, forbidden by the sixth commandment, has in it a twofold
malice, In common with fornication it violates chastity, and it is, besides,
a sin against justice. Drawing a distinction between these two elements of
malice, certain casuists, early in the seventeenth century, declared that
intercourse with a married woman, when her husband gave his consent,
constituted not the sin of adultery, but of fornication. It would,
therefore, they contended, be sufficient for the penitent, having committed
this act, to accuse himself of the latter sin only in confession. At the
instance of the Archbishop of Mechlin, the Academy of Louvain, in the year
1653, censured as false and erroneous the proposition: "Copula cum conjugata
consentiente marito non est adulterium, adeoque sufficit in confessione
dicere se esse fornicatum." The same proposition was condemned by Innocent
XI, 2 March, 1679 (Denzinger, Enchir., p. 222, 5th ed.). The falsity of this
doctrine appears from the very etymology of the word adultery, for the term
signifies the going into the bed of another (St. Thom., II-II:154:8). And
the consent of the husband is unavailing to strip the act by which another
has intercourse with his wife of this essential characterization."
But I can't find your precise point addressed.
When it's a work day again, perhaps some of our moral theologians will weigh
in. In the meantime I'm going to try searching the CCC for a definition of
the sin committed by a single person who copulates with a married one.
MG
p.s. All the dither seems to swirl around the woman...
>From: John Briggs <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: [M-R] Why Saint Damasus
>Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 15:03:56 -0000
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>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
>Marjorie Greene wrote:
>>
>>I have no idea about his specific case as I don't really care much
>>about such matters. But I will point out that if a single person has
>>sex with a married person, that's adultery. Moral theologians, I
>>stand ready to be corrected by you.
>
>It is indeed - but is committed by the married person.
>
>John Briggs
>
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