Canon Law questions about marriage!

[Melchior_1]

Not sure if this is the right section, but I’m trying to find some answers regarding marriages and Canon Law. Google seems to be failing me, as are my Canon law commentary websites.

Cliff notes; a friend of mine is getting married in a Protestant Church. His parents are concerned about validity of the wedding since my friend was baptized Catholic.

Thus, my two questions!

1. A Catholic has left the Catholic Church and has decided to attend Protestant services. He no longer believe in core Catholic doctrines like the papacy and the Eucharist. He gets married to a Christian woman in a Pentecostal church. Due to not being a practicing Catholic, no dispensation is granted. Is this marriage recognized as valid in the eyes of the Catholic Church?
2. Both man and woman have left the Catholic Church and have decided to attend Protestant services. They no longer believe in core Catholic doctrines like the papacy and the Eucharist. They get married to a Christian woman in a Pentecostal church. Due to not being practicing Catholics, no dispensation is granted. Is this marriage recognized as valid in the eyes of the Catholic Church?

And is there any applicable Canon Law here?

 

[Melchior_1]

Not sure if this is the right section, but I’m trying to find some answers regarding marriages and Canon Law. Google seems to be failing me, as are my Canon law commentary websites.

Cliff notes; a friend of mine is getting married in a Protestant Church. His parents are concerned about validity of the wedding since my friend was baptized Catholic.

Thus, my two questions!

1. A Catholic has left the Catholic Church and has decided to attend Protestant services. He no longer believe in core Catholic doctrines like the papacy and the Eucharist. He gets married to a Christian woman in a Pentecostal church. Due to not being a practicing Catholic, no dispensation is granted. Is this marriage recognized as valid in the eyes of the Catholic Church?
2. Both man and woman have left the Catholic Church and have decided to attend Protestant services. They no longer believe in core Catholic doctrines like the papacy and the Eucharist. They get married to a Christian woman in a Pentecostal church. Due to not being practicing Catholics, no dispensation is granted. Is this marriage recognized as valid in the eyes of the Catholic Church?

And is there any applicable Canon Law here?

EDIT; Someone can delete this, I got my answers offline.

Answer(s)? Marriages = no valid.

 

[1ke]

Cliff notes; a friend of mine is getting married in a Protestant Church. His parents are concerned about validity of the wedding since my friend was baptized Catholic.

They are right to be concerned.

1. A Catholic has left the Catholic Church and has decided to attend Protestant services. He no longer believe in core Catholic doctrines like the papacy and the Eucharist. He gets married to a Christian woman in a Pentecostal church. Due to not being a practicing Catholic, no dispensation is granted. Is this marriage recognized as valid in the eyes of the Catholic Church?

No, it is not.

1. Both man and woman have left the Catholic Church and have decided to attend Protestant services. They no longer believe in core Catholic doctrines like the papacy and the Eucharist. They get married to a Christian woman in a Pentecostal church. Due to not being practicing Catholics, no dispensation is granted. Is this marriage recognized as valid in the eyes of the Catholic Church?

No, it is not. Furthermore, two Catholics marrying each other cannot be dispensed from form. Dispensation from form is only available in a mixed marriage situation for a just cause.

And is there any applicable Canon Law here?

Yes.

Can.* 1059 Even if only one party is Catholic, the marriage of Catholics is governed not only by divine law but also by canon law, without prejudice to the competence of civil authority concerning the merely civil effects of the same marriage.

Can.* 1108 §1. Only those marriages are valid which are contracted before the local ordinary, pastor, or a priest or deacon delegated by either of them, who assist, and before two witnesses according to the rules expressed in the following canons and without prejudice to the exceptions mentioned in cann. ⇒ 144, ⇒ 1112, §1, ⇒ 1116, and ⇒ 1127, §§1-2.

Can.* 1127 §1. The prescripts of ⇒ can. 1108 are to be observed for the form to be used in a mixed marriage.

§2. If grave difficulties hinder the observance of canonical form, the local ordinary of the Catholic party has the right of dispensing from the form in individual cases, after having consulted the ordinary of the place in which the marriage is celebrated and with some public form of celebration for validity. It is for the conference of bishops to establish norms by which the aforementioned dispensation is to be granted in a uniform manner.