text: Part 2
  Assuming a couple with sufficient education to understand the rationale of canon law, the priest must first explain this. But then he is also OBLIGED to explain the irreducible primacy of conscience in Catholic morality. Ultimately this means that when we stand before the judgement seat of Christ, we will be asked to explain whether we lived according to our knowledge of good and evil as experienced by our own conscience, after taking the trouble to inform ourselves as accurately as our education allows about the teachings of the Church.
  
  Were I doing this today, again assuming an educated couple, I would invite them to pray over the scriptural texts on divorce, providing them with appropriate modern scriptural commentaries. 
  
  First, I would invite them to read Paul on the subject. Commentaries would point out that Paul says that Jesus was unambiguous prohibited divorce, but nonetheless Paul assumed the authority to override Jesus dictate given the circumstances of his people.