Questions About Adultary, Marriage Resolution and the Catholic Church?
Question by springtime happiness: Questions about adultary, marriage resolution and the Catholic church?
If woman #1 never remarries after her husband gets woman #2 pregnant and has a child by her during their marriage and them marries her after divorcing woman #1, can woman #1 convert to Catholocism and/or become a nun?
Also, if woman #1 was to ever remarry, would she be allowed to convert and/or would the marriage ever be recognized by the church?
Best answer:
Answer by Marysia
your logic is hard to follow sorry i will do my best…. if the woman who wants to convert has her marriage annulled and her children (if she has any) are over the age of 18 — yes if she truly has a calling she can become a nun. however if she is looking to remarry then being a nun isn’t for her. as long as she has her marriage annulled – you’re good to go.
Answer by Catholic Convert
Yes, she would be able to convert, no problem.
If that marrige is recognized by the Church as a valid marrige (talk to your local priest for more information) then she is not in the wrong because her husband left her.
I am not sure if she would be able to become a nun without having the first marrige declared invalid. Since nuns become the “bride of Christ” and she was already validly married to someone else, it doesn’t seem possible that she could give her whole life to Christ in that way.
Her previous marrige could be recognized by the Church and the marrige could be blessed by the Church if the couple were to reunite.
Also, I just want to be clear about something. Getting your marrige annuled has nothing to do with things that happened after the wedding took place. It deals with a couple’s eligiblity for marrige in the first place.
Grounds for a Catholic annulment are as follows:
Most annulments are based on canon 1095, psychological reasons. These include a wide range of factors. Some of them may be misrepresentation or fraud (concealing the truth about capacity or desire to have children for example, or about an preexisting marriage, drug addiction, felony convictions, sexual preference or having reached the age of consent)
Refusal or inability to consummate the marriage (inability or refusal to have sex) ,
Bigamy, incest (being married to someone else, or close relatives)
Duress (being forced or coerced into marriage against one’s will or serious external pressure, for example a pregnancy)
Mental incapacity (considered unable to understand the nature and expectations of marriage)
Lack of knowledge or understanding of the full implications of marriage as a life-long commitment in faithfulness and love, with priority to spouse and children.
Psychological inability to live the marriage commitment as described above.
Illegal “Form of Marriage” (ceremony was not performed according to Catholic canon law)
One/both partners was under the influence of drugs, or addicted to a chemical substance.
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