So, did Kelly actively reject the Faith, or is she just one of the innumerable American Catholics who went into a second marriage without attempting an annulment for the first, while still retaining a love for the Church?
I don’t know, and I can’t find where Kelly has specifically addressed it in a public forum.
Issues like this were at the center of this past fall’s Synod on the Family in Rome. German clerics pressed hard to re-admit divorced and remarried Catholics (who don’t have an annulment) to the Sacraments. But, disappointing many heterodox Catholics and the media, the final document of the Synod reaffirmed traditional Catholic teaching on the indissolubility of marriage — while still endeavoring to keep people in irregular unions within the bosom of the Church.
This integration is also necessary for the care of Christian formation of their children, who must be considered the most important. For the Christian community, taking care of these people is not a weakening of its own faith and witness regarding the indissolubility of marriage: indeed, the Church expresses her charity precisely in this care.
I can’t find in any published reports whether or not Kelly attends Mass, or if she’s raising her children in the Faith. But if the remarkable conversion story of her FNC colleague Kirsten Powers — from lukewarm Episcopalian to atheist to Evangelical to Catholic — shows us anything, it’s that the Holy Spirit can work miracles in people’s hearts and lives.
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