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Vatican preparing text for divorced and remarried couples, Cardinal Farrell says

April 25, 2023 Catholic News Agency 15

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St. Louis, Mo., Apr 25, 2023 / 15:50 pm (CNA).
The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Laity, Family, and Life is preparing a document that will address divorced and remarried couples at the request of Pope Francis,… […]

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Lent and the Sacraments: Matrimony

March 31, 2022 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 10

Quoting the Code of Canon Law, the Catechism begins its reflections on the Sacrament of Matrimony in this manner: The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of […]

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Thoughts on a mid-air marriage

January 18, 2018 Edward N. Peters 24

Popes have jurisdiction for the external forum anywhere on earth (cc. 134, 331, 1108), so Francis can officiate at a wedding anywhere, anytime. But officiating […]

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The Catholic Church recognizes most of the world’s ‘civil marriages’

September 2, 2017 Edward N. Peters 26

Catholics should not be misled by thinking that “civil marriage” is not usually real marriage or think that any approval of “same-sex marriage” is consistent […]

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