"One may even repeat the sacrament of marriage. For the death of one’s spouse dissolves the matrimonial bond and allows the surviving spouse to enter a valid sacramental marriage with another. Of course, if one killed one’s spouse in order to marry another particular individual, the marriage would still be invalid. For as canon 1090 states: “§1 One who, with a view to entering marriage with a particular person, has killed that person’s spouse, or his or her own spouse, invalidly attempts marriage. §2 They also invalidly attempt mariage with each other who, by mutual physical or moral action, brought about the death of either’s spouse.” While such incidents are fortunately rare, they nevertheless still happen in our day."
They were talking about this on another thread. If this is true and his girlfriend is Catholic, they can't have a Catholic wedding they kill Terri. For purposes of church weddings, Catholic canon law trumps civil law.
Somehow I'm guessing that Michael is not a devout Catholic! Given the things he has done, disobeying Church law on marriage is relatively minor.
M$'s current bob-and-weave is that they "have no plans to marry." (OK, since we all know the Florida courts turn a stone blind eye to open adultery even though black letter law says that will disqualify a guardian.) But some other source quoted Jodi as wanting a Catholic wedding. Probably some "Catholic" congregation in Florida will marry them and there won't be anything more than an "ahem" from the hierarchy.