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St. Peter The Apostle Catholic Community welcomes Our New Parishioners
December, January
John F. RiveraJose & Ofelia MartinezMichael R. CallowayGeorge & Maria BransonWilliam & Barbara Weinacht
Oliver Villanueva & Anna GrahamRenza & Tanya StingleyMarius & Lenuz ChicoGerald & Nadine Villalobos
Linda McDermottOlivia Nicole MancusoSaimua Bauer LeasiolagiJohn & Laurie Brodeur
Edward James & Celine Marie DoddsJoe Bowyer & Dolores GabaySilvia SiliceoChristina Vasquez
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Raymundo Lopez & Mercedes GuerreroWilfredo & Elizabeth RecientesHector Torres & Maria Zapien
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Dear Father Gem: My cousin (a catholic) is now engaged to a it applies not only to Catholics, but to
convert (non-Christian and now a catholic) who was civilly married to a every human being on earth.
non-Christian also and eventually ended in civil divorce. The problem The example just raised is a
came up after you interviewed my cousin and her fianc. They learned clear-cut one, and so youd be hard pressed
that they could not be able to marry in Church, unless my cousins to find any religious group (or any civil jurisdiction, for that matter) which
fianc gets an annulment. permitted someone to marry a relative in the direct line. The Methodists
and Muslims would never allow their members to do thisbecause they
Pardon my ignorance, but I always thought that canonical form binds likewise believe that this would be a blatant violation of natural law!
Catholic subjects only. Granting that non-Christians also apply But as you rightly observe, Stephen, there are other fundamental
annulment in the Catholic Church, are the standards the same for aspects of marriage which the Catholic Church also holds to be of divine
both Catholics and non-Catholics, i.e., unity, indissolubility, the good law, which other religious groups (and non-religious persons) do not. If,
of spouses and having children? What if a non-Catholic at the time of say, two people marry in a ceremony where they are not agreeing to
getting civilly married does not know the full information about how indissolubility, or if they absolutely exclude ever having children, the
Catholic Church views marriage? In general I am wondering how Church holds that whether theyre Catholic or not, they are not consenting
non-Catholics can give valid consent, if they dont know what the to marriage as God created it.
Church teaches about marriage? The Second Vatican Councils Pastoral Constitution on the
Stephen, Parishioner Church in the Modern World, Gaudium et Spes, described the Churchs
understanding of marriage:
Dear Stephen: Youve touched a very fundamental theological and
canonical issue that arises often in cases involving the marriage of non- The intimate partnership of married life and love has been
Catholics. If two non-Catholics marry in a non-Catholic ceremony and established by the Creator and is rooted in the conjugal
later divorce, and now one of them wants to marry a Catholic in a Catholic covenant of irrevocable personal consent By their very
ceremony, how does the Catholic Church regard the first marriage? nature, the institution of matrimony itself and conjugal love are
ordained for the procreation and education of children, and find
I have mentioned in our previous bulletin issues that Catholics in them their ultimate crown As a mutual gift of two persons,
who wish to marry are required to observe canonical form. Among other this intimate union and the good of the children impose total
things, Catholics have to marry in a Catholic wedding ceremony which is fidelity on the spouses and argue for an unbreakable oneness
celebrated by either the bishop, the parish priest, or another cleric between them (GS 48).
delegated by either of them (c.1108.1). If they fail to do this, and marry in
a non-Catholic wedding without obtaining a dispensation from their Note that since God (not the Catholic Church) established
bishop in advance, the marriage is invalid in the eyes of the Catholic marriage, its for everyone, Catholic or notand certain elements are
Church. intrinsic aspects of what marriage is all about. If you dont consent to
But the Church certainly doesnt require two non-Catholic them, the Churchs position is that your consent was defective, and your
spouses to observe the same canonical form. Hence, its perfectly logical marriage was not valid.
that two Baptists will marry in a Baptist wedding ceremony, Jews in a And speaking of consent, the Catholic Church also holds that
Jewish ceremony, and so on. People who were raised in no faith at all may everyone who marries, Catholics and non-Catholics alike, must be
understandably marry in a civil ceremony, conducted by a government consenting freely to the marriage. Canon 1103 states that a marriage is not
official. As far as the form of such marriages is concerned, the Catholic valid if it was entered by force, or by grave fear imposed from without.
Church accepts that it is valid for the non-Catholics who marry in accord For many, many centuries, the Catholic Church has held that consent
with it. In short, if a Buddhist marries in a ceremony that is recognized by makes the marriage.
Buddhist religious authorities as legit, then with regard to its form, its So to get back to your question: there definitely are situations
regarded as valid by the Catholic Church also. when non-Catholics might marry in a non-Catholic ceremony, and the
So, does that mean that the Catholic Church automatically Catholic Church would regard their marriage as invalid. This is only
regards every marriage of two non-Catholics as valid? No. At issue is the because the Church holds that certain aspects of marriage are matters of
distinction the Church makes between divine law (sometimes referred to divine law, and thus apply to everyonewhether they know that or not!
as natural law), and laws that are created by the Church hierarchy, known Note that unless such a marriage is brought before a diocesan Marriage
simply as ecclesiastical laws. Divine laws, in contrast, are laws that are Tribunal, because one of the non-Catholic spouses wants a declaration of
considered to have been established by God, and they are thus nullity in order to now marry a Catholic, the Catholic Church does not
unchangeable by man. Divine laws also apply to everyonenot just pass judgment on it at all. But as weve just seen, its quite possible for
Catholics. non-Catholics, and even non-Christians, to petition a diocesan Marriage
Lets say, for instance, a Methodist man wanted to marry his Tribunal for a decree of nullity of their marriageand if they can prove
daughter, or a Muslim woman wanted to marry her father, the Catholic that there was missing from their consent something which the Catholic
Church would instantly declare such a marriage invalid. This is not Church holds is an intrinsic element of marriage as God intended it, then
because the Catholic Church claims to have jurisdiction over non-Catholic the Tribunal will have to declare the marriage null ab initio.
religious groups in their own internal affairs it doesnt. Rather, the
Church holds that the prohibition on marrying any relative in the direct Fr. Gem
line of consanguinity (c. 1091.1) is a matter of natural/divine law. As such
SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME FEBRUARY 12, 2017 Pg.6
Prayer of the Faithful, we Pray for the names written in our book of Intentions.
TODAYS READINGS
First Reading If you share your food with the hungry, provide housing for the homeless, then light shall break forth upon you
(Isaiah 58:7-10).
Psalm The just man is a light in the darkness to the upright (Psalm 112).
Second Reading My message to you, says Paul, was not clever words of wisdom but the proclamation of Christ crucified
(1 Corinthians 2:1-5).
Gospel You are the salt of the earth, the light of the world. In your good deeds your light shines before others, leading them to glorify God
(Matthew 5:13-16).
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