Day 311: Adultery and Divorce (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The Catechism goes into detail about offenses against the dignity of marriage. The two topics we look at are adultery and divorce. These sins against marriage are not isolated between the spouses, but affect others including family, children, and society. With this, Fr. Mike reminds us that we live in a broken world, but God is among us, and he is a merciful Father with the ability to redeem. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2380-2386.
This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast, |
| 0:09.3 | where we encounter God's plan of sure goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down |
| 0:13.5 | through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by |
| 0:16.8 | Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is Day 311. We're reading paragraphs 2380 to 2386. As always, I am using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com |
| 0:41.9 | slash CIY. And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe to our podcast app for daily updates and daily |
| 0:47.0 | notifications. As I said, today is day 311, reading paragraphs 2380 to 2386. You know, we've been |
| 0:52.8 | talking in the Sixth Commandment for the last number of days. Today, we are talking about offenses against the |
| 0:59.0 | dignity of marriage. We recognize that marriage being a great good, marriage being a great gift, |
| 1:03.2 | and even marriage being something that was elevated by Jesus Christ himself to the status of a |
| 1:09.0 | sacrament. We recognize that there are ways that marriage can be |
| 1:13.8 | attacked, the ways that marriage can be wounded, ways that we can offend the dignity of marriage. |
| 1:18.7 | The two ways we're talking about today are through the sin of adultery and divorce. |
| 1:23.7 | And tomorrow we'll talk more about other offenses against the dignity of marriage, |
| 1:27.0 | but these two topics, |
| 1:28.6 | these two ways in which marriage is offended, I guess, for lack of a better phrase, or marriage is |
| 1:33.5 | attacked, are part of our broken world. And so we recognize that as we talk about these topics, |
| 1:39.4 | once again, as we talk about all these topics, we are keeping in mind the fact that in this catechism in |
| 1:44.7 | your community, there are people who have fought, there are people who have fought through |
| 1:48.5 | the temptation to adultery. There are couples who are listening to this, who have been through |
| 1:52.7 | the reality, the wound of adultery, and have made it through and are still struggling to be |
| 1:59.3 | faithful to each other, still struggling to trust each |
| 2:01.1 | other, still struggling to move forward. There are also couples that have said absolutely when it |
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