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Since monogamy and the indissolubility of marriage are founded on natural law, ligamen is binding on non-Catholics and on the unbaptized. If an unbaptized person living in polygamy becomes a Christian, he must keep the wife he had first married and release the second, in case the first wife is converted with him.
The Catholic Church holds that marriage is a sacrament creating an indissoluble union between one man and one woman. [4] While the Catholic Church allows for the possibility of separation from a marriage in certain cases, [5] it does not recognize the validity of a subsequent marriage unless a declaration of nullity has been obtained regarding the first marriage [6] or the first spouse is ...
This quality belongs fully to the marriage ratified and consummated. Thus mutual consent is sufficient to constitute marriage in its essence; consummation adds an accidental perfection and more absolute indissolubility [4] Absolute indissolubility is attributed only to ratified and consummated marriages between Christians. [5]
Marriage in the Catholic Church, also known as holy matrimony, is the "covenant by which a man and woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring", and which "has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament between the baptized". [1]
Specifically, Canon 1056 declares that "the essential properties of marriage are unity and indissolubility; in [C]hristian marriage they acquire a distinctive firmness by reason of the sacrament." [243] Canon 1057, §2 declares that marriage is "an irrevocable covenant". [244]
The Pauline privilege (Latin: privilegium Paulinum) is the allowance by the Roman Catholic Church of the dissolution of marriage of two persons not baptized at the time the marriage occurred. [1] The Pauline privilege is drawn from the apostle Paul 's instructions in the First Epistle to the Corinthians .
Certain Anabaptist denominations, such as the Southeastern Mennonite Conference, teach the indissolubility of marriage. [38] In the same vein, the Mennonite Christian Fellowship teaches the "sinfulness of remarriage following divorce". [21]
That should benefit man also in the natural order; first, the individual; and then, as a consequence, human society. Having laid down this principle, the encyclical deals with Christian marriage which sanctifies the family, i.e. the unit of society. The divinely instituted marriage contract initially had two properties: unity and indissolubility.