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Re: I like a good beer buzz early in the morning.
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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch
It’s a widely held misconception among lay Catholics that only marriages deemed “valid” by church law are sacramental in character and subject to annulment before a new marriage can be performed by the church. Not so. I know several priests who had to deliver the news that Bride was not going to get a wedding Mass just because Groom’s prior marriage was performed by a justice of the peace in Vegas. It’s true that weddings to Protestants require “permission” while marriages to “persons of no creed” require dispensation, but all marriages entered into prior to seeking a church wedding have to be adjudicated somehow. The standards for establishing an imperfect formation of intent are probably easier for an Elvis chapel wedding, but still.
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Unless the catholic in question was told in the second grade by a nun that she was a bastard and going to hell because her father had been married once before and therefore her parents weren't married in the eyes of god and she had to choose whether she loved God more or her parents more.
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