A marriage between a Catholic and anyone outside the faith must get prior approval from the Pastor and Bishop of your diocese. If the marriage is in an Anglican Church (which could only happen with special permission from the bishop), then a Catholic priest would need to be present to witness the marriage. Under any other circumstances, no marriage would have taken place because by canon law, a Catholic must be married in a Catholic Church before a Catholic bishop, priest, or deacon.
yes, they are legally married if they had a marriage license. They are sacramentally married if they met the conditions for a sacramental marriage;; freely give themselves to each other and are open to children.
No. Unless the Church has changed in 20 years, you will have to get your marriage annulled by the Bishop of your local Catholic Archdioces. It will take a while and there is a lot of paperwork involved. If it is important to you and your future bride then approach the priest of your local parrish or the priest that married you and your ex-wife and discuss your wishes to be re-married in the Catholic Church and find out from him what you will need to do.
Yes, but not unless the marriage is annulled. If the woman was Catholic and married by a Justice of the Peace with no church involvement, then the nullity is straightforward; however if she was married in a Catholic service the nullity is a long process; and there is no guarantee of acceptance as her past history will be under scrutiny.Roman Catholic AnswerIf you are asking what the question reads, then, no, you can not be accepted into the Catholic Church to be a nun - period. You can be accepted into the Catholic Church. After you have been a practicing Catholic for at least a year, you may discern a vocation to the religious life. If you have previously been married and divorced, that would have to be annulled as stated above, before you could proceed.
Catholic Answer:Not in the eyes of the Catholic Church. For Catholics, a valid marriage cannot be dissolved through human means. This means that a divorced couple is still married and thus is not free to marry someone else. Add to this the fact that a Catholic is obliged to marry according to the Catholic form of marriage (which usually means marrying inside the Catholic Church) barring dispensation, and this scenario is unlikely to be accepted.The only way that this would be accepted by the Catholic Church is if the divorced party gets an annulment (which means that the Church recognizes that a valid marriage did not occur) and the Catholic man gets dispensation from his bishop from marrying according to the Catholic form. Unless and until the annulment is granted and the dispensation procured it would not be possible to marry and so their marriage would be tantamount to adultery. If the Catholic party consents to this he is in mortal sin and would need to go to confession and regularize his situation before receiving the Sacraments.Literal Answer:Since the Anglican Church is not governed by the beliefs and interpretations of the Catholic Church, there should be no impediment to a divorced Catholic woman marrying in an Anglican church; although, it would be up to the individual church. I have heard that it is actually quite common, and that Catholic priests tend to gravitate to the Anglican Church when they choose to marry.
There is no such thing as a trial marriage in the Catholic Church. You are either married or not. There is nothing in between.
Roman Catholic AnswerThe only way that you can be married in a Catholic Church if you are not already married. So, if you are married, and it was in the Anglican Church, then you would indeed need an annulment if you wished to marry someone else in a Catholic ceremony.
Yes, he does if he was previously married.
Generally, priests may not marry. However, if a married priest from the Anglican or Orthodox Church decides to become a Catholic priest, he can remain married. However, divorce is neither recognized nor permitted by the Catholic Church. Divorce is a civil matter. If a Catholic priest were married (a situation that happens, for example, in very few non-Latin rite churches or in the case where a married Anglican priest converts to the Catholic Church and wants to be a Catholic priest), it would be the same for him. I would hope it would not happen, but if he and his wife divorced, it would be a civil matter as well. Unless his marriage were annulled (recognized as invalid from the beginning), the Church would still consider him bound by the sacrament of Matrimony, because contracts (civil marriage) are the domain of the state, and sacraments are the domain of the Church.
The Answer is NO. A married Catholic cannot have a second wife till the time the first marriage is annulled.
When a man is ordained in the Roman Catholic church, he forfeits the right to the sacrament of marriage because his Holy Orders are a form of marriage - in and of themselves - to the Church. This rule applies to all deacons, priests, bishops, and cardinals (who are also bishops themselves)..Short Answer: No, Cardinals may not marry.
Roman Catholic AnswerYes, you need to discuss this with your priest. If you marriage that you are in is valid, you should have no problems.
Ifa Catholic was married by a justice of the peace in a civil ceremony, the marriage can be validated,or blessed, by the Catholic church under ceratin conditions ( first marriage,etc.). It is not a new marraige, but a validation of the existing marriage. If not not married, there is no service blessing of a relationship.