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Category Archives: Marriage
Can Catholics Marry in Any Parish Church They Want?
Q: My fiancé and I just decided to get married. The city where we both live is very far from both of our home-towns and our relatives, but we’ll be having the wedding here in our parish, which is also … Continue reading
Canon Law and Marriage Records
Q: My wife and I have been married for eight years. We were married in her parish church at that time, but we now live in the same parish where my family lived when I was born, and where I … Continue reading
Can Catholics be Prohibited from Marrying in Lent and Advent?
Q: I am engaged to a non-Catholic. We want to have the wedding in December, during the Advent season. December is the only time when all my relatives are around due to the school holiday… My parish priest rejected my … Continue reading
Annulments and the Authority of the Parish Priest
Q: In 1987, I was married in the Catholic Church. Both of us were Catholics. We civilly divorced after three years of marriage. In 1994, I explained the previous marriage situation to a priest who was helping me and my … Continue reading
Why Can’t a Deacon Celebrate This Marriage?
Q: My fiancé is a baptized, faithful Greek Orthodox and I am Roman Catholic. We are about two weeks away from our wedding and received an email that the priest at my church, the location of our wedding, will no … Continue reading
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