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  2. Affinity (Catholic canon law) - Wikipedia

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    Canon law of theCatholic Church. In Catholic canon law, affinity is an impediment to marriage of a couple due to the relationship which either party has as a result of a kinship relationship created by another marriage or as a result of extramarital intercourse. The relationships that give rise to the impediment have varied over time.

  3. Marriage in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    t. e. 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 ...

  4. Impediment (Catholic canon law) - Wikipedia

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    Canon law of theCatholic Church. In the canon law of the Catholic Church, an impediment is a legal obstacle that prevents a sacrament from being performed either validly or licitly or both. The term is used most frequently in relationship to the sacraments of Marriage and Holy Orders.

  5. Canon law of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    The canon law of the Catholic Church (from Latin ius canonicum[1]) is "how the Church organizes and governs herself". [2] It is the system of laws and ecclesiastical legal principles made and enforced by the hierarchical authorities of the Catholic Church to regulate its external organization and government and to order and direct the ...

  6. 1983 Code of Canon Law - Wikipedia

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    e. The 1983 Code of Canon Law (abbreviated 1983 CIC from its Latin title Codex Iuris Canonici), also called the Johanno-Pauline Code, [1][2] is the "fundamental body of ecclesiastical laws for the Latin Church ". [3] It is the second and current comprehensive codification of canonical legislation for the Latin Church of the Catholic Church.

  7. Decretum Gratiani - Wikipedia

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    Canon law of theCatholic Church. The Decretum Gratiani, also known as the Concordia discordantium canonum or Concordantia discordantium canonum or simply as the Decretum, is a collection of canon law compiled and written in the 12th century as a legal textbook by the jurist known as Gratian. It forms the first part of the collection of six ...

  8. Validity and liceity (Catholic Church) - Wikipedia

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    Catholic canon law also lays down rules for licit, also called lawful, placing of the act, along with criteria to determine its validity or invalidity. Valid but illicit or valid but illegal ( Latin : valida sed illicita ) is a description applied in the Catholic Church to describe either an unauthorized celebration of a sacrament or an ...

  9. 1917 Code of Canon Law - Wikipedia

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    The 1917 Code of Canon Law (abbreviated 1917 CIC, from its Latin title Codex Iuris Canonici), also referred to as the Pio-Benedictine Code, [1] is the first official comprehensive codification of Latin canon law. Ordered by Pope Pius X in 1904 and carried out by the Commission for the Codification of Canon Law, led by Pietro Cardinal Gasparri ...