[Hermann the Cherusker]

The Church has the power to declare non-marriages null and even to dissolve legitimate marriages in certain circumstances (i.e. Petrine Principle, Ecclesiastical Divorce, etc.).

Wait a minute. I've never heard that the Church claims the authority to dissolve a valid sacramental marriage. Your source, please?

Petrine Privilege: The dissolution of a legitimate marriage between a baptised person and a non-baptised person in favor of the faith to allow the baptised person to remarry.

Ecclesiastical Divorce (practiced today in the Eastern Churches only, but accepted by the West): The setting aside of a marriage between baptised persons where one party has broken faith through adultery or abandonment, done in favor of the innocent party, through the power of economy.

[1stFreedom]

>>Ecclesiastical Divorce (practiced today in the Eastern Churches only, but accepted by the West)

The west rejects Ecclesiastical Divorces. The ONLY civil divorce recognized by the western Church is separation of room and board -- legal separation.

[findingtruth]

Petrine Privilege: The dissolution of a legitimate marriage between a baptised person and a non-baptised person in favor of the faith to allow the baptised person to remarry.

Does "legitimate marriage" = sacramental marriage? If so, in what official document do you find that the Church endorses it?