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  2. Marriage in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. Marriage - Wikipedia

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    Relations may be by consanguinity or affinity, meaning by blood or by marriage. On the marriage of cousins, Catholic policy has evolved from initial acceptance, through a long period of general prohibition, to the contemporary requirement for a dispensation. [78] Islam has always allowed it, while Hindu texts vary widely. [79] [80]

  4. Ligamen - Wikipedia

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    Ligamen comes from the Latin word meaning "bond". [1] In Catholic teaching, marriage forms a bond between the parties; this may be considered primarily a metaphysical or ontological bond which cannot be dissolved, or primarily a moral bond of obligation which should not be dissolved.

  5. Marriage vows - Wikipedia

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    Couples wedding in the Latin Church of the Catholic Church essentially make the same pledge to one another. According to the Rite of Marriage (#25) the customary text in English is: [5] I, ____, take you, ____, to be my (husband/wife). I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health.

  6. Banns of marriage - Wikipedia

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    The banns of marriage, commonly known simply as the "banns" or "bans" / ˈ b æ n z / (from a Middle English word meaning "proclamation", rooted in Frankish and thence in Old French), [1] are the public announcement in a Christian parish church, or in the town council, of an impending marriage between two specified persons.

  7. Catholic (term) - Wikipedia

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    The term catholicism is the English form of Late Latin catholicismus, an abstract noun based on the adjective catholic. The Modern Greek equivalent καθολικισμός katholikismos is back-formed and usually refers to the Catholic Church. The terms catholic, catholicism, and catholicity are closely related to the use of the term Catholic ...

  8. Ratum sed non consummatum - Wikipedia

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    For Peter Lombard and the school of Paris, marriage contracted by mutual consent alone is a true and complete marriage, absolutely indissoluble, and, between Christians, a sacrament. This second theory had the support of early Christian writers, received the approval of Sovereign Pontiffs, particularly of Alexander III, and soon prevailed.

  9. Validation of marriage - Wikipedia

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    In Catholic canon law, a validation of marriage or convalidation of marriage is the validation of a Catholic putative marriage. A putative marriage is one when at least one party to the marriage wrongly believes it to be valid. [1] Validation involves the removal of a canonical impediment, or its dispensation, or the removal of defective consent.