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I was baptized Catholic as an infant but when I was 10 years old my parent’s left the Church so my Catholic faith ended. I was married to a man who was baptized baptist. At the time of our marriage, neither of us had a particular religious affiliation so we were married by a church of Christ minister who we knew through family. Later on, I returned to the Church, after several years completed RCIA and was Confirmed and received First Communion on Easter 3 years ago. The issue of my marriage was never addressed. My husband has now decided to convert to the Catholic Church (yay!) and will be completing RCIA this Easter. This time around, the issue of our marriage has been established and our priest has informed us that we must be married again. Our understanding of Church teaching was that the Church recognized our marriage (though we understand that it does not recognize it as a sacramental marriage) so we are confused why we are expected to be married again. We have met with our priest several times but are facing a language barrier so we aren’t understanding. We have done some research and have come across conflicting information so we are now pretty confused. Our priest says we will not be having our marriage convalidated, we will actually be getting married. Why are we expected to get married when we are already married?