Evangelicals don't have valid marriage?

[phil19034]

More like not a marriage that followed the Catholic rules

I would like to comment on this “Catholic rules” comment.

The reason for the “rule” is because the Church has no way of knowing what a Baptised Catholic was taught or not thought. So the Church ASSUMES a baptized Catholic was taught the about the sacraments.

For Protestants, the Church assumes they were taught the basics of Christian Marriage, therefore they are cool.

So why doesn’t the Church just assume a baptized Catholic who is a protestant at the time of the marriage in a valid marriage? Because that starts to open up a Pandora’s Box of possible “what if’s.”

The Church needs to be able to “testify” to your marriage and will always assume you are married unless given reason to doubt the vality.

So instead of trying to determine who should be considered Catholic and which shouldn’t, canon law consideres everyone who has received at least one Sacrament of Inititaiton in the Catholic Church to be Catholic - regardless of their age at the time of initiation.

God Bless

 

[guanophore]

See, here it is again, invalid marriage. Not a real marriage.

This cannot be assumed.

If your wife is okay with it, you can speak to a priest about having a convalidation ceremony to make your marriage valid. If she is not okay with it, you can speak with your priest about a radical sanation. Either method would make your marriage valid. (This is not that uncommon among cradle Catholics who lapsed and then returned.

Talk to your priest @EvangelistVictor

Well this is currently impossible to do as the other half refuses to believe this.

It is not impossible. That is the whole purpose of a radical sanation.

In talking to my Catholic friends, they said the CC makes it too difficult for people like me to come home.

This is a misunderstanding.

it feels like a strong attack saying go back to your true Pentecostal Church where the gifts of the Spirit used to flow through you.

I understand. But one must discern whether one’s needs of ego for being useful are more important than submitting to the plan Jesus has for His Church. I can assure you that the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable, and that His plan for you as you move forward is to serve the Body of Christ.

 

[EvangelistVictor]

Please pray, as God can make a way where there is no way. I know God has a perfect plan, and it will come to pass. Thanks to everybodies comments.

 

[Dlee]

Two Baptists, baptized in the Trinitarian formula, first marriages for both. Divorced after 20 years. I convert to Catholicism. Father said my marriage is accepted as valid because it was valid in my Baptist Church. Ex is remarried (his problem). Now if I want to date, I will have to seek to make my marriage null.

 

[po18guy]

Their theology puts them at far greater risk than their marriage, which may be natural, or even valid if they are baptized - which many are not.

 

[BoomBoomMancini]

But there is a way. People have told you exactly how your issue would be addressed. I feel like you’re looking for justification to stay an evangelical here.

 

[camoderator]

Actually, the Church recognizes the marriages of non-Catholics Christians and non-Christians too. That’s why divorced and remarried non-Catholics who seek to become Catholics have to receive declarations of nullity or dissolutions re: their prior unions if the Church is to recognize their current unions.

Indeed, marriage was first a natural union before it was elevated to the level of a sacrament by Jesus Christ. And so marriages in general enjoys the favor of the law, as the legal maxim goes (cf. Code of Canon Law, canon 1060).