Canons 63, 90 1127: Invalid Dispensation from Canonical Form
In a case before our tribunal, we are presented with a questionable dispensation from canonical form. On the standard form used as a petition for the dispensation, the priest checked off “to achieve family harmony or to avoid family alienation” as the reason for the dispensation to allow the marriag...
| Published in: | Roman Replies and CLSA Advisory Opinions 2018 |
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| Language: | English |
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2018
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Roman Replies and CLSA Advisory Opinions 2018
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Catholic church, Verfasserschaft1, Codex iuris canonici (1983). 63,2
/ Catholic church, Verfasserschaft1, Codex iuris canonici (1983). 90
/ Catholic church, Verfasserschaft1, Codex iuris canonici (1983). 1127
/ Dispensation
/ Wedding ceremony
/ Canonical form
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| Summary: | In a case before our tribunal, we are presented with a questionable dispensation from canonical form. On the standard form used as a petition for the dispensation, the priest checked off “to achieve family harmony or to avoid family alienation” as the reason for the dispensation to allow the marriage to be held in a church where the female party had been baptized a Protestant. Upon inquiry, we have learned: (1) the church at the time of the marriage was a nondenominational wedding chapel and no longer the parish of her baptism; (2) the formerly Protestant woman /the petitioner, who subsequently became a Catholic, testified that, if the dispensation had been denied, she would have had no objection to being married in the Catholic parish church of her ex-husband (the respondent) but that her preference was for the smaller, more intimate wedding chapel. In our diocese, dispensations from canonical form are given only when the marriage will be in a Protestant church, not in a non-denominational chapel or anywhere else. In light of these facts, was the dispensation valid? |
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| ISBN: | 193220850X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Roman Replies and CLSA Advisory Opinions 2018
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