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Thus, the Church assumes the validity of non-Catholic Christian marriages, even when they don't follow the form set out by Church law.

I must be missing something.

You just said that a non catholic wedding is valid in the eyes of a church. You also said, I think, that a non catholic marriage can be nulled because it was not presided over by a priest so that one or the other participants can be re-married in the catholic church..??

If I have all that right:), then it seems to me the catholic church is covering itself at both ends, which makes it a bit hypocritical, IMO.

Becky

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Dear PNAMBC,

I think you might be missing something.

Failure to be married in front of a Catholic priest is grounds for a declaration of nullity only for Catholics. Two Protestants who marry otherwise may not claim such a failure as grounds for a declaration of nullity, should they be interested in reception into the Catholic Church.


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