Its nothing more than me saying “Good stuff.”
A blessing is just a pleasantry to satisfy secular Americans. It is NOT the sacrament of marriage, which can only happen once both parties are baptized, make first communion and are confirmed in the Catholic church.
If they want to have a Catholic marriage the monseigneur should have no problem helping them make the sacrament given they take the appropriate steps to complete the above three conditions, meet with him for 1 on 1 pre-cana and also take the requisite pre-cana courses/group meetings. He will also require you get a local “remarriage license” from the town/state, so he can formally marry you secularly at the same time as your sacrament. This last part isn’t required but MOST monseigneurs will insist on it anyway.
Your post seems to suggest that there can be no valid Catholic marriage unless both parties are Catholic. This is not true. As long as the couple receive proper instruction and formation, as long as the proper dispensations are in order, and as long as the couple promise to live in accordance with Catholic teaching, be open to children, and raise their children as Catholics, a Catholic and a non-Catholic Christian may be validly, sacramentally married in the Catholic Church.
As well, there are no such things as "remarriage licenses." For couples looking to have their previously-invalid marriage made valid by the Church, if the couple have been legally married, as recognized by the civil authorities, there is nothing to be done at the civil level regarding their marriage. Civil marriage is a different matter from a valid, sacramental marriage.
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