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Disparity of cult, sometimes called disparity of worship (Disparitas Cultus), is a diriment impediment in Roman Catholic canon law: a reason why a marriage cannot be validly contracted without a dispensation, stemming from one person being certainly baptized, and the other certainly not baptized.
In essence, it is an extension to marriages between a baptised and a non-baptized person of the logic of the Pauline privilege, the latter being dissolution of a marriage between two non-baptized persons to enable one of them, on becoming a Christian, to enter a Christian marriage. According to Canon 1150 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law, the ...
In Catholic canon law, there are a number of requirements for a valid Catholic marriage. However, a Catholic marriage is considered valid unless and until it is proved otherwise. [ 1 ] In consequence, children born as a result of a marriage which is found to be void are considered legitimate, and the spouses cannot marry others without first ...
Another problem was that the law gave rise to what Dacanay calls "surprise marriage" because the involvement of the pastor was merely passive. As an example, Dacanay cites the case where the parties to the marriage would break into the priest's residence, wake him up, and express their consent to the marriage even before the priest becomes ...
On the other hand, a marriage celebrated in due form between a Catholic and an unbaptized person is invalid unless dispensation has previously been obtained from the competent church authority. [32] Other cases in which a marriage is both illicit and invalid are indicated in canons 1083 to 1094 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law. [33]
After 30 years of advocacy efforts by the Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence and Ohio rape crisis organizations, Ohio is one step closer to eliminating the spousal rape exemption with a near ...
The canon law of the Catholic Church is articulated in the legal code for the Latin Church [9] as well as a code for the Eastern Catholic Churches. [9] This canon law has principles of legal interpretation, [10] and coercive penalties. [11] It lacks civilly-binding force in most secular jurisdictions.
In March 1911, the issue of the Roman Catholic Church's canon law declaring invalid marriages that were recognised as valid by the State raised political and judicial issues in Canada when a judge of Quebec's Superior Court confirmed the annulment by the Roman Catholic Church of the marriage of two Catholics which had been performed by a ...