Question about married deacons

[FormerFetus]

Hello!

I’m hoping someone can answer my question here.
I understand that a married deacon cannot remarry if his wife dies. However, recently someone told me that the reverse is also true–that the deacon’s wife cannot remarry if the deacon dies. This doesn’t sound right to me, so I’m hoping someone will tell me if this is true.

Thanks!

 

[ThuribleGuy45]

Hello!

I’m hoping someone can answer my question here.
I understand that a married deacon cannot remarry if his wife dies. However, recently someone told me that the reverse is also true–that the deacon’s wife cannot remarry if the deacon dies. This doesn’t sound right to me, so I’m hoping someone will tell me if this is true.

Thanks!

Not true. The wife of a deceased deacon is free to remarry. The impediment to a widower deacon remarrying is the fact that he is in Holy Orders and cannot therefore marry. That obviously does not apply to the wife of a deacon since she by definition is not in Orders.

 

[tee_eff_em]

Hello!

I’m hoping someone can answer my question here.
I understand that a married deacon cannot remarry if his wife dies. However, recently someone told me that the reverse is also true–that the deacon’s wife cannot remarry if the deacon dies. This doesn’t sound right to me, so I’m hoping someone will tell me if this is true.

Thanks!

This is not true to my knowledge. You will have to ask your interlocutor to support his incredible claim. That the deacon himself is impeded is evidenced in Canon Law.

Can. 1087 Those in sacred orders invalidly attempt marriage.

A deacon’s wife is not in sacred orders, nor is there an analogous Canon pertaining to her.

tee
Not A Canon Lawyer

 

[FormerFetus]

Thanks for the responses. That is what I understood, too, but this person was adamant that the wife has to sign some agreement that she, too, cannot remarry.