Catholic Marrying a Catholic Divorcee

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Hello, I am new to the forum and would be very appreciative if someone could help me.

I am a practicing Catholic as is my fiancee. My fiance is a divorcee.

My question is, what is the Church’s stance on a Catholic divorcee remarrying? Can we be married in chapel?

Thank You.
 
Hi Gonzaga,

This is a message board with very few experts in canon law. So please do make an appointment with your priest to discuss the particulars.
In General a person who is validly married cannot marry someone else even if they have gone through civil divorce. They can however petition the church to look at their marriage to see if indeed a marriage took place.In layman’s terms we call this getting an annulment.
There are many variables as to whether a person was able to contract a valid marriage. The details are important also such as was the person a baptised christian or not? Where did the marriage take place? Too many to go into on a message board.

So the general non specific answer is you cannot marry a divorced person if they are validly married.

Go see your Priest.
 
I forgot to add the most important thing. If you haven’t already begun praying for God to show you his will in all this then do that now.

I wil pray for you both as well.

In General I advise practicing Catholics to never date a person who is not free to marry. Same thing for practicing Catholics who are civilly divorced but haven’t entered petitioned for an anullment. There is to be no dating because they are not free to marry as far as they know.

Obviously this doesn’t help you but it might help someone else.
 
First of all:

W E L C 👋 M E to the forum.

Check with your priest first. Was she married in the Church? If so, then an anulment will be needed. IF she was married “Civilly” then the first marriage was not valid and you are free to marry in the Church.

Whatever you do, please contact your local priest.
 
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dhgray:
First of all:

W E L C 👋 M E to the forum.

Check with your priest first. Was she married in the Church? If so, then an anulment will be needed. IF she was married “Civilly” then the first marriage was not valid and you are free to marry in the Church.

Whatever you do, please contact your local priest.
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My daughter still is having to turn in her annulment papers even though her first marriage was a civil ceremony.
 
That’s standard. The church assumes every marriage valid until proven otherwise. In some cases the paperwork is simple such as lack of form -in civil cases and can be easily submitted at the parish level. We had some bad cases of Priests just ignoring this paperwork and marrying people anyway. Not good because as you can imagine it lead for misinformation.
 
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