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- Date: Wednesday, 30 Dec 1992 15:53:24 EST
- From: Marty Helgesen <MNHCC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
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- If a marriage was invalid because of lack of free consent or lack of
- proper intention it can easily be validated, or rectified, or whatever
- the proper term is. If it was invalid because of some impediment for
- which a dispensation can be obtained, it can be validated after
- obtaining the dispensation. (It is my impression that, for pastoral
- reasons, such dispensations generally are easy to obtain.) Only if
- the impediment was a matter of divine law (either natural law or
- divine positive law) is it impossible to validate the marriage, unless
- the circumstances have changed. If, for example, a divorced person
- enters an invalid "second" marriage, it cannot be validated unless
- and until the divorced spouse dies.
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- Marty Helgesen
- Bitnet: mnhcc@cunyvm Internet: mnhcc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
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- "Experience beats in vain upon a congenital progressive."
- -- C. S. Lewis
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