02-27-2004, 04:30 PM
Hi,
Actually, Nico is right. The Catholic Church does not recognize any marriage outside their church as valid. Thus, a Catholic that was married in a civil services can get divorced and then re-marry in the Catholic Church. The "sin" of co-habitation can be forgiven through Confession (the sacrament, not little c "confession" :) ). OTOH, if a couple marries in the Catholic Church, then that marriage can only be dissolved through death or annulment. Annulment, in effect, is a claim that the marriage never took place. Some very "funny" things have been used as rationals of annulment.
Why did the Monseigneur marry my wife and I in a Catholic Church wedding? I am not, nor was I Catholic. She was.
Yep. So what? What Nico actually said was:
The Catholic church does not only refuse to recognize civil unions as "marriages", but also refuse to acknowledge a marriage within another church as a "marriage" either.
Nowhere in there is the requirement that both parties (or either for that matter, but that case would indeed be strange) be Catholic. Just that the marriage be performed by a priest of the Catholic religion in accordance with their ritual.
In the past, a part of the requirement for a non-Catholic to marry a Catholic was that the Catholic be free to practice his/her religion and that any children be raised in the Catholic faith. I don't know if this is still the case.
--Pete
Actually, Nico is right. The Catholic Church does not recognize any marriage outside their church as valid. Thus, a Catholic that was married in a civil services can get divorced and then re-marry in the Catholic Church. The "sin" of co-habitation can be forgiven through Confession (the sacrament, not little c "confession" :) ). OTOH, if a couple marries in the Catholic Church, then that marriage can only be dissolved through death or annulment. Annulment, in effect, is a claim that the marriage never took place. Some very "funny" things have been used as rationals of annulment.
Why did the Monseigneur marry my wife and I in a Catholic Church wedding? I am not, nor was I Catholic. She was.
Yep. So what? What Nico actually said was:
The Catholic church does not only refuse to recognize civil unions as "marriages", but also refuse to acknowledge a marriage within another church as a "marriage" either.
Nowhere in there is the requirement that both parties (or either for that matter, but that case would indeed be strange) be Catholic. Just that the marriage be performed by a priest of the Catholic religion in accordance with their ritual.
In the past, a part of the requirement for a non-Catholic to marry a Catholic was that the Catholic be free to practice his/her religion and that any children be raised in the Catholic faith. I don't know if this is still the case.
--Pete
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