Cruz slams 10-year marriage contract idea
LINGAYEN–Dagupan Archbishop emeritus Oscar Cruz has slammed talks of changing the civil marriage contract into a 10-year validity period, subject to renewal.
“The truth is that marriage is a covenant, a compact, a vow – all of which immediately imply constancy, permanence, stability,” he said.
The retired prelate wrote in his blog the proposition of a temporary time frame demeans the meaning of marriage.
He added that this will not be good for children and society as a whole.
He said men and women who enter temporary marriages basically say that they are not serious about one another, that they take the human family lightly, and that they consider marriage but some kind of for-the-moment diversion or a by-the-way option.
Cruz, who has written several books about marriage, among them Marriage Tribunal Ministry and Evidence in Marriage Nullity Cases, said a temporary marriage contract implies that: One, division of the domestic abode – which is disturbing; two, division of conjugal properties – which is troublesome; and three, division of the children – which is traumatic.
Those who do not believe and/ or cannot accept a lifetime conjugal partnership, he said, should not get married at all.#
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