Question about Catholic marriage and civil marriage

[TomH1]

I think you mean formal defection

I do believe ‘formal defection’ is what I said.

 

[Gorgias]

I do not believe I was the first person in this thread to start adding whatso scenarios. I thought if others were I might, too, join in the frivolity.

LOL!

OK… but, yours is really, really far-fetched. It doesn’t even stand up to logical scrutiny, no?

 

[Vico]

I believe dispensation from canonical form when both parties are Catholic is reserved to the Holy See.

Yes. Now, the seed that began my chain of posts was “** I believe dispensation from canonical form when both parties are Catholic is reserved to the Holy See.**”. That does not apply to radical sanation.

 

[TomH1]

It doesn’t even stand up to logical scrutiny, no?

I suppose that would depend on whether one were to give it a cursory glance or study it in-depth.

My basic point throughout this has been do not jump to conclusions or make assumptions. You cannot know everything about two people or their circumstances. One requires all the facts to be able to come to a judgement with certainty. The decision over whether two people are married belongs to the Church and not any one of us.

For me this thread has run its course and I am muting it.