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At the press conference announcing the reforms, Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, the president of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, emphasized that the church does not decree the "annulment" of a legally valid marriage, but rather declares the "nullity" of a legally invalid marriage. [4]
In the Catholic Church, a declaration of nullity, commonly called an annulment and less commonly a decree of nullity, [1] and in some cases, a Catholic divorce, is an ecclesiastical tribunal determination and judgment that a marriage was invalidly contracted or, less frequently, a judgment that ordination was invalidly conferred.
1983 Code of Canon Law. Omnium in mentem; Magnum principium; Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches; Ad tuendam fidem; Ex corde Ecclesiae; Indulgentiarum Doctrina; Praedicate evangelium; Veritatis gaudium; Custom; Matrimonial nullity trial reforms of Pope Francis; Documents of the Second Vatican Council. Christus Dominus; Lumen gentium; Optatam ...
The favor of dispensation from a marriage ratum sed non consumatum is an inherently administrative procedure, while the process for obtaining a Declaration of Nullity (often misleadingly termed "annulment") is an inherently judicial one. [15] In a ratum the valid marriage bond is dispensed from, while in a Declaration of Nullity a marriage is ...
In the canon law of the Catholic Church, a vetitum (Latin for "a prohibited thing") is a prohibition, in the form of a precept, imposed by an ecclesiastical judge on a particular individual, in connection with declaring the nullity of marriage, that prevents them from contracting another marriage, at least until the cause of the nullity of the ...
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]
Dignitas connubii is an instruction issued by the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts on 25 January 2005 on the discipline to be observed in diocesan and interdiocesan tribunals regarding causes of the nullity of marriage. [1]
1983 Code of Canon Law. Omnium in mentem; Magnum principium; Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches; Ad tuendam fidem; Ex corde Ecclesiae; Indulgentiarum Doctrina; Praedicate evangelium; Veritatis gaudium; Custom; Matrimonial nullity trial reforms of Pope Francis; Documents of the Second Vatican Council. Christus Dominus; Lumen gentium; Optatam ...