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“Because of these teachings of Christ and the apostles, the Church cannot simply give a divorced person whose former spouse is still living permission to remarry. Consequently, the Church has the annulment process to investigate whether the marriage is valid in the first place.” (Page 3)
“A civil divorce may dissolve a marriage in terms of public law, but it does not dissolve it in terms of God’s law. Thus, obtaining a divorce does not result in the right to remarry in God’s eyes.” (Page 3)
“by divine law they lack the capacity to marry each other.” (Page 12)
“In the absence of a dispensation from form, a Catholic is normally unable to validly contract marriage in a non-Catholic ceremony. Failing to observe the Catholic form of marriage normally results in an impediment that causes the marriage to be invalid.” (Page 10)
“A divorce is supposed to dissolve a valid marriage. An annulment is a finding that what appeared to be a valid marriage is not.” (Page 3)