Non-Catholic Marriage?

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Hi all
I’m Gloria and I’m interested in Faith Formation. A friend of a Friend entered the Catholic Church and said her marriage was
“Sabsaratio in Racice.” Does anyone know what that is? Is this a Catholic marriage?

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Gloria
 
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**Q: I am a Catholic who was married outside the Church without a dispensation, so my marriage is invalid before God–a fact I very much want to correct. My non-Catholic spouse is unwilling to be married in the Catholic Church. Is there anything I can do? **

A: Assuming that there is nothing like a previous, putative marriage that needs to be taken care of first (through a decree of nullity), and assuming that you both still have valid matrimonial consent, your marriage can be rendered valid using a canon law procedure known as radical sanation.

This term comes from the Latin phrase sanatio in radice, meaning “healing in the root.” According to the Code of Canon Law, “The radical sanation of an invalid marriage is its convalidation without the renewal of consent” (CIC 1161:1). This means you do not have to go through a new marriage ceremony.

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