Concerning annulments, can someone please give me a good explanation of the Error of Sacramental Dignity (Canon 1099)?

[HomeschoolDad]

Elf01:

For anullment it doesn’t, but it means your marriage wasn’t sacramental, and is therefore potentially dissoluable. I’m pretty sure it’s Petrine privilege, and don’t get your hopes up too high, but it may be worth investigating.

I take it your baptism wasn’t Catholic.

Petrine privilege, as in “dissolution of a marriage by the Pope”? I’ll talk to my parish priest about it, but this seems like a bit a long-shot. But I do appreciate you bringing it to my attention.

And no, my baptism was not Catholic.

In the strictly sacramental sense, all valid Trinitarian baptisms are Catholic. Remember that we “confess one baptism for the remission of sins”.

Adults who are baptized receive a Catholic sacrament — there is no other kind of sacrament — and become (disliked language alert here) material heretics instantaneously — not formal, material, there’s a difference — when they choose a non-Catholic faith. I didn’t say they are bad people, I didn’t say they are not in good conscience or lack good will, I am just stating an objective fact.

As for infants who are baptized by Protestants (some do, some don’t), I would be interested in knowing how these babies are not Catholics until they attain the age of reason, and choose a non-Catholic sect of their own free will (impaired though their access to Catholic teaching is).

Orthodox Christians are not heretics, material or otherwise.

 

[1ke]

Petrine privilege, as in “dissolution of a marriage by the Pope”? I’ll talk to my parish priest about it, but this seems like a bit a long-shot. But I do appreciate you bringing it to my attention.

Petrine privilege is a good avenue for you to Pursue. You should definitely look at this as a serious option, not a longshot.