WAW Using God II

[pigskin]

I had to chime in on this one as it is near and dear to me.

I don't remember exactly the circumstances of 25's relatives prior marriages. But what I do know from much research on my own is that if the church declares a marriage annuled/invalid, even if they are wrong, the church basically eats that one before God, not the 2 people getting married. If the marriages were annuled from the past, and a full mass was done on the new marriage with the blessing and sacraments, and there was no fraud involved, the marriage is then now valid and for life. So if everything was done right this time, her brother's marriage is now set for life and there is no way for him to get out of this one now. And hopefully, he nor his wife never will want to. I hope it is a great marriage til the end for them.

I have done quite a bit of research on cannon law this past year so while I am no expert at all, I have learned enough to know that.

Kevin

That makes complete sense. But what 25 was saying was that her brother and his wife never got their outside the church marriages annulled before being married in the catholic church.

I had always believed that if you married outside the church, it was not recognized, so divorces in those cases don't need annulments. But just this past week my pastor told me that is not the case, but he didn't indicate whether this is a new policy or not.