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mark_a
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How does the Church handle this? Or multiple husbands?
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Mystophilus
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I have no idea how the Church does it, but I recently found out my country’s view: the most-recently-wedded spouse is the legal one, here.
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vern_humphrey
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If you’re referring to polygamy or polyandry, the same basic process applies (albeit the canonical implications are different.) A convert cannot maintain more than one wife or husband after baptism or being accepted into the Church.
If you’re referring to people who are divorced and re-married, the Church will help them seek an annulment.
If you’re referring to polygamy or polyandry, the same basic process applies (albeit the canonical implications are different.) A convert cannot maintain more than one wife or husband after baptism or being accepted into the Church.
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Joan_M
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I do not think that would do it for the Church! The first one wedded would be the legal one. After all, you can only have one spouse, and any “added” spouses would not be validly married.
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Catholic2003
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The convert must select only one of the spouses. The convert is encouraged to select the first one that he/she married, but if this is not feasible, then the Pauline privilege can be used to dissolve the other marriages prior to the marriage to the selected spouse.
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batteddy
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Can. 1148 ß1 When an unapprised man who simultaneously has a number of unapprised wives, has received baptism in the catholic Church, if it would be a hardship for him to remain with the first of the wives, he may retain one of them, having dismissed the others. The same applies to an unapprised woman who simultaneously has a number of unapprised husbands.
ß2 In the cases mentioned in ß1, when baptism has been received, the marriage is to be contracted in the legal form, with due observance, if need be, of the provisions concerning mixed marriages and of other provisions of law.
ß3 In the light of the moral, social and economic circumstances of place and person, the local Ordinary is to ensure that adequate provision is made, in accordance with the norms of justice, Christian charity and natural equity, for the needs of the first wife and of the others who have been dismissed.
ß2 In the cases mentioned in ß1, when baptism has been received, the marriage is to be contracted in the legal form, with due observance, if need be, of the provisions concerning mixed marriages and of other provisions of law.
ß3 In the light of the moral, social and economic circumstances of place and person, the local Ordinary is to ensure that adequate provision is made, in accordance with the norms of justice, Christian charity and natural equity, for the needs of the first wife and of the others who have been dismissed.
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mark_a
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Are these cared for by the Church (or Church funds), if necessary?
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