O poder sagrado: uma abordagem a partir da relação entre a Igreja Católica e os casais em segunda união

Abstract

Family institution reveals new arrangements from which we emphasize families made up by couples in their second relationship, originated from divorces and separation. Even before these changes, the Catholic Church continues to reaffirm its speech about the indissolubility of sacramental marriages. As a concrete attitude in the institutional religious practice, the referred church, which is the owner of the moral and social control and the bodies; owner and distributor of symbolic properties, playing the role of whom punishes , using the sacred power, provides the couples who decide to give themselves a second chance in a family constitution, the exclusion of symbolic properties, specifically, the sacrament of the confessiont and of the eucharist. The movement OVISA (Orientation to Sacramental Living) having as a support the official documents of the institution also excludes of its meetings this category of Christians, causing diverging reactions, including the abandon of religious practice. It s clearly noticeable the distance between the official catholic speech and the sacramental practice of the Christians in their second relationship. Nevertheless for these couples, even before the imposed prohibitions, the religion or the Catholic Church continues giving sense and meaning to their daily life.