Permission/Dispensation in mixed-marriages & disparity- of-cult marriages

[Phemie]

Hello Phemie.

I strongly disagree with you. A person who attempts a mixed marriage must get permission from the Local Ordinary to do so. An ordinary parish priest cannot waive this. All of this is spoken of in Canons 1124, 1125, 1126, 1127. Please look them up and read them. I’m too tired to type them out of my Commentary.

Glenda

I know the canons.

But in the same way that a bishop can delegate to the pastor the confirmation of the parish children, he can also delegate the granting of permission for mixed-marriages where the non-Catholic is a baptized Christian to any priest or deacon incardinated in his diocese.

 

[Diaconia]

Yes, he can, and some do.

 

[twf]

I assume in these cases the pastor would have to have solid proof (eg. baptismal certificate) that the non-Catholic party was baptized with the Trinitarian formula.

My Protestant wife didn’t have a certificate, just the testimony of her mother, so my pastor included a request for a CONDITIONAL dispensation for disparity of cult when submitting my paperwork with the Diocese. (The Bishop’s permission was required anyway as he was also requesting a dispensation from canonical form for me). As far as I’m concerned my wife is baptized and our marriage is sacramental, but the Church errs on the side of caution.