Disheartened Returning Catholic - Cannot Receive Eucharist

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First let me say to all those in need of an annulment of one’s own previous marriage or a spouse’s: contact your parish which will be able to tell you whom to contact! Random people on the internet do not know enough about your particular situation or the questions to ask to be of any help! The issues of previous baptisms, church memberships, etc., all come into play, before one even gets to the point of considering grounds for an annulment.

If anyone tells you you can use the “internal forum” instead, no, this is not the case. The internal forum *can not *substitute for an examination of the marriage.
 
ksdindy said:
1, Those are ridiculous choices to have to make
  1. A sin forgotten is a sin forgiven. Had I never tried to enlighten myself by picking up a few books to increase my faith, I would have never been aware of this and, ergo by church doctrine, would not be living in mortal sin.
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Ridiculous that the Church, which so respects and extols the importance of marriage, should respect and extol even the importance of the marriages of non-Catholics? Including the first marriage of your wife? It would be ridiculously inconsistent if it did not.
 
ksdindy said:
So I just found out my wife has not been baptized. Does this make an annulment easier?
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It doesn’t make it easier, but it allows for additional options. A marriage that involves an unbaptized spouse is not sacramental, and marriage dissolution is also a possibility, via the Pauline or Petrine Privileges. Your spouse needs to speak to your pastor regarding this matter.
 
ksdindy said:
1, Those are ridiculous choices to have to make
  1. A sin forgotten is a sin forgiven. Had I never tried to enlighten myself by picking up a few books to increase my faith, I would have never been aware of this and, ergo by church doctrine, would not be living in mortal sin.
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FWIW, if you had no knowledge that what you had done was a mortal sin, then you did live in mortal sin. Now that you know you are living an objectively sinful situation, your awareness would mean that continuing conjugal relations would be a mortal sin. If you wish to return to the Church, simply address the situation and take the necessary it steps to correct it. Fighting it will only make you angry.
 
LilyM said:
Ridiculous that the Church, which so respects and extols the importance of marriage, should respect and extol even the importance of the marriages of non-Catholics? Including the first marriage of your wife? It would be ridiculously inconsistent if it did not.
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It would be ridiculously inconsistent for the church to not uphold the truth of doctrine and dogma. If people are not in a sacramentally valid marriage than the only being upheld is a purely human i.nstitution. marriage is a three way union not a two way. Marriagr is a participation with God in the act of creation.

No one is saying they shoild get a divorce only find the proper way to make it a sacramentally valid union with God.

As stated in a previous post go this is comlplex. Get some advice from someone at the diocezan level.
 
ksdindy said:
So I just found out my wife has not been baptized. Does this make an annulment easier?
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Well, it would not make a decree of nullity any easier, as that is a determination of a valid marriage and validity is not related to baptismal status.

However, what it does do is open up other avenues, such as dissolution of the bond.

I suggest you obtain the book Annulment: The Wedding That Was by Michael Smith Foster to help both of you understand nullity.

Also this chart may be helpful:

diocs.org/Portals/1/Documents/Tribunal/Decision_matrix.pdf
 
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