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Answer: If you were married validly as two Christians in the Catholic Church, you and your husband’s marriage is a sacrament. As the Church’s Code of Canon Law provides, a marriage between two Christians in the Church cannot be valid without its also necessarily being a sacrament: Can. 1055 §1.
Jan 16, 2007 · The fundamental element that "makes the marriage" (i.e. validity) is free mutual consent ( Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 1625). If two baptized persons validly exchange consent, the marriage is sacramental by that very fact ( Catechism, no. 1601; cf. Code of Canon Law, canon 1055 §2).
Jul 2, 2016 · As a voluntary act in which consent is of the utmost importance, certain prerequisites are obviously necessary – no prior valid marriage, and no deceit as to the identity and qualities of the person you are marrying. Qualities of a serious nature that would be impediments to a valid marriage would include a number of non-disclosures ...
- The Context of Pope Francis's Remarks
- What Did Pope Francis Actually Say?
- Objective Impediments to A Valid Marriage
- Impediments to Matrimonial Consent That May Affect A Marriage's Validity
- "The Culture of The Provisional"
- A Deeper Examination of The Validity of Marriage
- Pope Benedict Made The Same Argument
- The Heart of The Matter -- and An Important Consideration
Pope Francis's comments may have been unexpected, but they did not come out of left field. On June 16, he was addressing a pastoral congress for the Diocese of Rome, when, as the Catholic News Agency reports, The questioner and the Holy Father shared three specific concerns, none of which is in itself controversial: first, that there is a "crisis o...
In the context of the question that the Holy Father was asked, we can better understand his answer. As the Catholic News Agency reports, "The Pope answered from his own experience": He later noted that many Catholics "don't know what the sacrament [of marriage] is," nor do they understand "the beauty of the sacrament." Catholic marriage-preparation...
But is it really that hard for Catholics today to contract a valid sacramental marriage? What kinds of things can render a marriage invalid? The Code of Canon Law addresses these questions by discussing "specific diriment impediments" -- what we might call objective impediments -- to marriage, and those problems that may affect the ability of one o...
What both Pope Francis and the questioner had in mind were, instead, those things that affect the ability of one or both of those entering a marriage from fully consenting to the marriage contract. This is important because, as Canon 1057 of the Code of Canon Law notes, "The consent of the parties, legitimately manifested between persons qualified ...
So what does the Holy Father mean by the "culture of the provisional"? In a nutshell, it's the idea that something is important only so long as we think it's important. Once we decide that something no longer fits with our plans, we can set it aside and move on. To this mindset, the idea that some actions we take have permanent, binding consequence...
Pope Francis's off-the-cuff comment in June 2016 was hardly the first time that he has considered the topic. In fact, other than the "great majority" part, everything he said (and much more) was expressed in a speech that he delivered to the Roman Rota, the Catholic Church's "Supreme Court," 15 months earlier, on January 23, 2015: The language is m...
And in fact, Pope Francis was not the first pope to address this very issue. Indeed, Pope Benedict had made essentially the same argument about "culture of the provisional" in the same setting -- a speech to the Roman Rotaon January 26, 2013: And from that reflection, Pope Benedict drew a conclusion that, if anything, is even more disturbing than t...
In the end, then, it appears that we can separate the possible hyperbole -- "the great majority" -- of Pope Francis's unscripted remarks from the underlying issue that he discussed in his response of June 2016 and in his speech of January 2015, and that Pope Benedict discussed in January 2013. That underlying issue -- the "culture of the provisiona...
What are the rules and requirements for a valid Catholic wedding? There are three basic requirements for a valid Catholic wedding: The couple must be capable of being married—that is, they must be a woman and a man who are free of any impediment that would prevent marriage.
A valid Catholic marriage results from four elements: (1) the spouses are free to marry; (2) they freely exchange their consent; (3) in consenting to marry, they have the intention to marry for life, to be faithful to one another and be open to children; and (4) their consent is given in the canonical form, i.e., in the presence of two ...
A valid Catholic marriage results from four elements: (1) the spouses are free to marry; (2) they freely exchange their consent; (3) in consenting to marry, they have the intention to marry for life, to be faithful to one another and be open to children; and (4) their consent is given in the presence of two witnesses and before a properly ...
