You are trying all well and good but wrong. The RC considers most marriages valid, the annullment process determines if invalid. For instance you may re-marry but without annullment the new marriage is invalid. But yet for communion/confession purposes the new marriage is valid and your living in mortal sin.The presumption is that a marriage is valid. However, if one of the parties to a marriage claims that it was not valid then a Tribunal can investigate to determine if it was or wasn’t valid. If no marriage ever took place – in other words, it was invalid – then the parties are free to marry.
It’s really an act of compassion on the part of the Church. The alternative would be that if a marriage ended in divorce the parties could never marry in the future. Instead, the Church will look at the marriage to determine if it was valid – and the parties involved remain married to each other even if they don’t live together – or if it was invalid and the parties are free to pursue new relationships.
No one is forced to pursue a declaration of nullity. A person who doesn’t want to marry again never has to deal with a Tribunal.
No…for communion/confession purposes the new marriage is INvalid and the couple is living in sin. Two people living together as if they’re married when they are not have a problem.You are trying all well and good but wrong. The RC considers most marriages valid, the annullment process determines if invalid. For instance you may re-marry but without annullment the new marriage is invalid. But yet for communion/confession purposes the new marriage is valid and your living in mortal sin.
It’s back n forth. If the couple divorced the RC would claim the marriage is valid.No…for communion/confession purposes the new marriage is INvalid and the couple is living in sin. Two people living together as if they’re married when they are not have a problem.
If you’re both validly baptized (which means you were once joined to Christ and his Church, the Catholic Church), had at some apostatized, and were free to marry, then the form of the sacrament of Matrimony exposed in Canon Law does not bind you…and you may be already married sacramentally by your civil contract. However, if you fell merely into the sin of heresy or schism, then the form of the sacrament laid out in Canon Law does bind you.My husband is a lapsed Catholic. Has not attended since he was 12. I am converting. What does it mean to have our marriage “blessed”? We were married at a courthouse…Thanks a lot for trying to help me with my question.