enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Marriage in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_in_the_Catholic...

    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. Affinity (Catholic canon law) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity_(Catholic_canon_law)

    Canon 109 of the Code of Canon Law of the Catholic Church provides that affinity is an impediment to the marriage of a couple, and is a relationship which "arises from a valid marriage, even if not consummated, and exists between a man and the blood relatives of the woman and between the woman and the blood relatives of the man."

  4. Wedding cord - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_cord

    The cord is held in place by means of pins. In other wedding ceremonies, the wedding cord is tied around the couple's wrists. The wedding cord stays on and around the couple until the wedding mass or religious service is finished. Then, it is removed by the same pair of wedding participants who were assigned to place the loop around the couple. [2]

  5. Mystery of Crowning - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_of_Crowning

    A couple marrying according to the Mystery of Crowning at a Byzantine Rite Catholic wedding The Mystery of Crowning is a ritual component of the sacrament of marriage in Eastern Christianity . Variations of the crowning ceremony exist in multiple liturgical rites , including the Byzantine , Coptic , West Syriac , and East Syriac Rites of the ...

  6. The Catholic Church’s Blessing of Same-Sex Couples, Explained

    www.aol.com/news/catholic-church-blessing-same...

    The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops was more businesslike in explaining the essentials of how and where the blessings could be bestowed, and that Catholic teaching on marriage and ...

  7. Impediment (Catholic canon law) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impediment_(Catholic_canon...

    When a marriage of a Catholic takes place without following the laws and rites of the Catholic Church. Such a marriage does not even have the appearance of validity and, consequently, does not enjoy the presumption of validity. Coercion. This impediment exists if one of the parties is pressured by any circumstances to enter into marriage.

  8. Step by step, Francis has made the Catholic Church a more ...

    www.aol.com/news/step-step-francis-made-catholic...

    The Catholic Church, in its doctrine, still rejects same-sex marriage and condemns any sexual relations between gay or lesbian partners as “intrinsically disordered.” It became clear early in ...

  9. Marriage vows - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_vows

    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.