The Catholic Church recognizes all legal marriages between baptized Christians. Churches do not marry people. People marry people and the priest/minister is a witness.
Yes. Couples wishing to marry must always meet first with the pastor. He may require some sessions of premarital couseling and religious instruction on the Christian ideals of married life.
The problem with this is with the Roman Catholic Church, not the Lutheran Church. You must be a baptized member of the Roman Catholic faith to be a godparent in a Roman Catholic baptism, and...
Marriage is not a sacrament in the Lutheran Church. So as an affair of the state, it is recognized when it is legally performed by anyone given the authority to do so.
Actually, the Catholic Church recognizes ALL marriages between baptized persons as valid sacramental ("religious") marriages. So if the couple was married by a minister in another sect of...