Will the Catholic church recognize our marriage?

Question

I was baptized Methodist, and my fiance Catholic. We are getting married in a chapel in Las Vegas-this is because he is from Germany, and the Nevada marriage laws are so easy to follow.
I want to know if the Catholic church will recognize this marriage?

Answer 1

It will be recognized as a civil marriage with all the expectations and privileges thereof. You are baptized, he's Catholic, no problems there. Just make sure that if you two register in a parish you have his home church in Germany send the baptismal record for him.

Also, make sure the citizenship requirements are taken care of. You'll find these to be more problematic.

Answer 2

i'm afraid your fiance made a mistake with the help of agreeing to marry outdoors the Church. Holy Matrimony is a Sacrament for Catholics, and it is particularly obvious that your fiance won't be in a position to get a Sacrament a mail-order wedding ceremony expert or a magistrate. specific, a Catholic priest could marry Catholics to ensure that their marriages to be recognized in the church. in case you belonged to a distinctive style of Christian Church, you're turning out to be married in that church and nonetheless had the marriage recognized, yet in view which you're agnostic, that may not an option. Your advice of a separate, private ceremony is positive, however the Catholic vows could ensue until eventually now the different wedding ceremony (which will extremely in easy terms be a renewal of vows, yet no person has to comprehend that in case you do no longer desire them to). Your fiance needs to call a clergyman and communicate this. The Church demands specific premarital education training, that are designed to assist the couple stay married all their lives, so it is totally efficient, whether you at the instant are not non secular. As an agnostic, you will in all threat additionally be asked to take some training or study a e book or 2 approximately Catholicism so as which you already know your fiance's faith and how specific factors of Catholicism will impact your married lives. for example, your fiance could advance all babies Catholic, and that may not negotiable. you additionally can instruct them why you're agnostic, yet you're able to promise to no longer do something to ward off your fiance from raising the youngsters Catholic or from practising the Catholic faith. That stages from no longer encouraging your better half to bypass Mass on Sundays to attending your babies's sacramental activities (like First Holy Communion) to no longer stressful that your better half use man made beginning administration, that's a grave sin for Catholics.

Answer 3

Of course not, that is a secular union and has nothing to do with Church laws.
Most of the "vows" are so ambiguous, they don't say, 'till death do you part' anymore.. its more like as 'long as our love will last'.Well that isn't very permanent most people aren't passsionately in love within 24 hours let alone 6 months.

You need to talk to a priest if your finance` wants to be married forever. because the Church wants you to go through counseling before the marriage. It really helps to find out before hand, if you are truly compatible to be married, mature enough and serious enough to make it to through the real vows.
The easier to go through a marriage ceremony the quicker the divorce. Not many Nevada marriages become lifetime committments. Plus the fact you dont' take blood tests and that should be a safety issue for anyone with all the STDs around nowadays.

Answer 4

No the Church requires that you get married in a Catholic Church before it will recognise your marriage. Under civil laws you are legally married though.
The following is the teaching of the Church in your case. I suggest you read it carefully before you get married.

Mixed marriages and disparity of cult
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In many countries the situation of a mixed marriage (marriage between a Catholic and a baptized non-Catholic) often arises. It requires particular attention on the part of couples and their pastors. A case of marriage with disparity of cult (between a Catholic and a non-baptized person) requires even greater circumspection.


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Difference of confession between the spouses does not constitute an insurmountable obstacle for marriage, when they succeed in placing in common what they have received from their respective communities, and learn from each other the way in which each lives in fidelity to Christ. But the difficulties of mixed marriages must not be underestimated. They arise from the fact that the separation of Christians has not yet been overcome. The spouses risk experiencing the tragedy of Christian disunity even in the heart of their own home. Disparity of cult can further aggravate these difficulties. Differences about faith and the very notion of marriage, but also different religious mentalities, can become sources of tension in marriage, especially as regards the education of children. The temptation to religious indifference can then arise.


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According to the law in force in the Latin Church, a mixed marriage needs for liceity the express permission of ecclesiastical authority.137 In case of disparity of cult an express dispensation from this impediment is required for the validity of the marriage.138 This permission or dispensation presupposes that both parties know and do not exclude the essential ends and properties of marriage; and furthermore that the Catholic party confirms the obligations, which have been made known to the non-Catholic party, of preserving his or her own faith and ensuring the baptism and education of the children in the Catholic Church.139


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Through ecumenical dialogue Christian communities in many regions have been able to put into effect a common pastoral practice for mixed marriages. Its task is to help such couples live out their particular situation in the light of faith, overcome the tensions between the couple's obligations to each other and towards their ecclesial communities, and encourage the flowering of what is common to them in faith and respect for what separates them.


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In marriages with disparity of cult the Catholic spouse has a particular task: "For the unbelieving husband is consecrated through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is consecrated through her husband."140 It is a great joy for the Christian spouse and for the Church if this "consecration" should lead to the free conversion of the other spouse to the Christian faith.141 Sincere married love, the humble and patient practice of the family virtues, and perseverance in prayer can prepare the non-believing spouse to accept the grace of conversion.
Peace and every blessing!

Answer 5

Assuming that you are both unencumbered by previous marriages, you would need to ask the Catholic church to bless this marriage via a short ceremony.

These types of things are never automatic, and must be requested, but are usually fairly routine.

Answer 6

Tell your finance to talk to the local Priest to get permission to be married out side the Church and then your marriage will be recognised in the Church

God Bless You

Answer 7

As long as the laws of the various states recognize it, and you both recognize it, what the church thinks is irrelevant. Good luck to you.

Answer 8

Congratulations,no the catholic church is very rigid. God will
recognize your marriage,Be happy.

Answer 9

Get it convalidated in a Catholic Church at some point|

Ask a priest about this, he will tell you about it|




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Answer 10

I don't see why not.
If they give you any trouble, just get it 'recognized' by a Greek Orthodox Church (who won't have a problem with it). Once it is recognized by a Greek Church, the Roman Catholic Church will accept it as well.