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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]
Catholic canon law adopted Roman law, which set the minimum age of marriage at 12 years old for females and 14 years old for males. The Roman Catholic Church raised the minimum age of marriage to 14 years old for females and to 16 years old for males in 1917 and lowered the age of majority to 18 years old in 1983.
The general marriage age (lacking authorization for an exception) is 18 years of age in all states except Nebraska, where the general marriage age is 19, and Mississippi, where the general marriage age is 21. [1] The general marriage age is commonly the age of majority, though in Alabama the general marriage age is 18 while the age of majority ...
The Catholic Church of Chicago, 1876. This is a list of current and former Roman Catholic churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago.The archdiocese covers Cook and Lake Counties and is organized for administrative purposes into six vicariates as follows:
Roman Catholic sacramental theology teaches [citation needed] that the ministers of the sacrament of holy matrimony are the man and woman, and therefore any marriage contracted voluntarily between two baptized and unmarried adults is valid [citation needed], though under ordinary circumstances the marriage must be witnessed by clergy to be ...
The petitioner (one of the parties in the marriage to be dissolved): if baptized and Catholic at the time of the marriage in question, must intend to marry a baptized Christian (soon after or in the future). if non-baptized or baptized in another Christian Church, must either; intend to enter the Catholic Church or be baptized in it, or
The canon law of the Catholic Church has all the ordinary elements of a mature legal system: laws, courts, lawyers, judges. [8] The canon law of the Catholic Church is articulated in the legal code for the Latin Church [9] as well as a code for the Eastern Catholic Churches. [9]
When the Diocese of Chicago was erected in 1843, it included all the Illinois counties from the Diocese of St. Louis and Vincennes. [5] In 1857, Pope Pius IX erected the new Diocese of Alton, transferring all of Southern Illinois from the Diocese of Chicago. The Southern Illinois area would remain part of the Diocese of Alton, for the next 30 ...