Posted on 04/04/2013 9:19:20 AM PDT by Weiss White
Q: I have heard of something called the “Pauline Privilege.” I gather that, based on Saint Paul’s words in I Corinthians, it means that if I left my wife before I was baptized, she could have been allowed to re-marry? –John
A: Most Catholics have probably never heard of the Pauline Privilege, but it’s an important component of the Church’s law on the indissolubility of marriage. It’s also one of the relatively few instances where specific laws found in the current code are taken directly from Sacred Scripture—in this case, from the words of Saint Paul himself.
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