If I marry a woman outside the catholic church, can I also marriy her in the catholic church later.
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Yes.
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You need to take you catechism classes again. Ask you priest, the rules are in the process of changing.
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Yes and no - if the marriage was not a Christian marriage, where both members had been baptized. Ask a priest.
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I'm confused. Are you Catholic or is she Catholic? If one of you isn't and you decide to hold a ceremony outside of the church, you can sinply ask the priest to perform another ceremony within the church walls. Marriage is a sacrament and in most diocese, is not recognized if it wasn't held inside the church. I had that problem with my first marriage, and was unable to have the beach wedding I desired for that reason. And no, they wont require the first marriage to be anulled, b/c it more than likely won't be recognized in the first place. Check with the priest, the rules might be different where you live. Also, both of you aren't required to be Catholic to recieve a ceremony. You just won't be able to have the full mass, since one of you won't be able to take the sacrament of communion among other things. Good luck!
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Well once you have a marriage license from the gov, i think the actual religious ceremony is a moot point. It would sortof be looked at as renewing your vows.
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Inside, outside. This is America! ;-)
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only, if you become catholic
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Sure you can later marry her in the Catholic Church later....... providing you convert. In the Church the marriage would be legal under civil secular law, but not Church. Now before anyone gets upset. If you are Jewish, Methodist, LDS, Muslim, Buddhist, Voodoo or any other religion, would any actually perform and sanctify a marriage in their hallowed grounds unless the person professed belief? Every religion I know of screens couples before performing a marriage. So does the government in some countries and US states.
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You would have to talk to your priest about that. It would depend on a number of things- whether you married her outside the Catholic Church because you could not be granted a Catholic wedding (eg one or both were divorced etc), whether you were both members of the Catholic church. Also, as Noldea pointed out, in many countries, such as England, the USA and Australia, ministers of religion are granted licences to marry by the government. A religious ceremony in itself is not a LEGAL marriage according to the laws of these countries if the minister is not licensed by the government. Therefore, if you had a civil ceremony, your marriage would already be legal by the country laws, and you could not have another legal ceremony within a church. Any ceremony would only be a sanctification ceremony, to make the marriage acceptable to church law. In Europe, however, no church has the right to do the legal ceremony. All people must marry in a civil service. If they want a religious ceremony, they have that AFTER the civil one. Some people have the civil one a long time before the religious one, but most have it on the same day.
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Probably. This is called a Convalidation of Marriage. Here is an article about the steps involved: http://www.americancatholic.org/Newsletters/CU/ac0604.asp Talk to your parish priest to get the process started. For more information, see the Code of Canon Law, paragraphs 1156 and following: http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P46.HTM With love in Christ.
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nope
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You can do whatever you want. These days, there will definetly be a priest somewhere who will oblige you.
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