If your Catholic and get married by a catholic church, can you still divorce?

Question

yes i heard that if your catholic and get married by a catholic church you cannot get divorce, I just want to make sure if thats correct. please let me know thanks

Answer 1

You are not supposed to. It's a little more complicated then that.

If you are Catholic and marry in the Church, then you are married for life. That said, no one has control over another...there are some Catholics whose spouse just leaves, or cheats on them or is abusive...and they end up divorced

If you get divorced by the State and remain single and celibate, no problem. If you want to get remarried, you have apply for and receive an annulment from the Church. This has to be done before the remarriage. The annulment process is a long and not taken lightly.The vow you made before God is a big one...no one should make a vow they do not intend to keep.

An annulment will be granted if it is determined that your marriage was never sacramental in the first place. If it was a sacramental marriage then it cannot be dissolved under any circumstances...because "what God has joined together...." no one can undo.

The understanding is that when you marry, you are making a lifetime commitment. This is not something you should enter into without taking into consideration the weight of such a promise. Once married...your first commitment is always to God and then to your spouse. If you keep those things at the front of your mind...and put yourself last...then you should stay married.

Answer 2

No, and yes.

A Catholic married in the The Church can get a civil divorce.

But we believe that God does not recognize civil divorces and therefore in God's eyes the couple is still married.

Jesus said, "Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate." (Mark 10:9)

However there may be hope of a declaration of nullity.

The term "annulment" is a misnomer because the Church does not undo or erase a marriage bond.

Rather the Church issues a declaration of nullity when it discovers that the parties were not truly joined by God and hence a full spiritual sacramental marriage as understood by the Church was not present.

Then the parties are free to marry for the first time.

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

You should never lie -- it's not like you can fool God, and it's a bad way to start out a marriage. If you marry the muslim man and later divorce and wish to marry somebody else in the Catholic Church, you would go through the same procedure as anybody else. You would apply for a decree of nullity and you'd get it fairly easily for "lack of canonical form" because you married a muslim in a muslim ceremony without dispensation OR if you sought dispensation prior to the muslim marriage and received it, you could possibly get it on other grounds (such as announcing your intention to divorce before the marriage even happened). Why don't you just marry the right guy in the right way so you don't have to wrorry about divorce and remarriage at all?

Answer 4

A valid marriage cannot be dissolved, therefore divorce and remarriage are not so much wrong as impossible. People who separate from their spouses after contracting a valid marriage and re-marry are committing adultery since their first marriage can only be dissolved by death. However, if one's first "marriage" is not a valid marriage then one may get married in the Catholic Church, for one has never been married before and the person you were living with before was not really your spouse. In order to make your marriage unvalid you must get an annulment.

Answer 5

First, divorce is not sinful. It is a tragedy, but not a sin. Marrying without a decree of nullity after getting a divorce IS sinful- because in the eyes of God, you are still married to the first spouse.

A civil divorce is not valid in the eyes of the Catholic Church- that is not restricted to Catholics.

Marriage is supposed to be one to a customer- Jesus said that anyone who divorces and marries another--UNLESS THE MARRIAGE WAS UNLAWFUL--commits adultery.

That means that you cannot remarry after a civil divorce UNLESS it is proven that there was something lacking in the 1st marriage that kept it from being sacramental. ( even though other Christians do not consider marriage a sacrament, if all the essential elements are there, their marriages are sacramental.)

Examples of invalid marriages are-
-where one or both parties refuse to have children (note- as long as they are OPEN to children, all is OK- ie- the elderly can marry as long as they are open to haveing children, even though it is very unlikely)
-one or both parties do not believe marriage is forever
-one or both parties intends to be unfaithful

there are other examples.

Note- whatever the reason, it MUST be there at the time of the opriginal ceremony to be considered grounds for a declaration of nullity.

Answer 6

No, you can get an annulment, but it is very difficult and takes a very long time. I think you have to go thru the Vatican (the Pope?)
Many years ago there was a Catholic princess (Princess Caroline of Monaco) who married in a Catholic ceremony and it took many, many years for her first marriage to be annulled. I think it was at least 10 years, maybe more. Obviously, money & power have little or no influence. I think that the fact that they had no children made a very big difference, but I'm not sure.

Answer 7

The marital bond is eternal.

The mere legal proceeding, called "divorce" cannot break the marital bond.

An annulment is not a spiritual divorce. Rather, it is a declaration from the Church that, for whatever reason, no marital bons existed in the first place.

Marriage is a Holy Sacrament - one that can only be received once, thus it is not to be taken lightly.

Answer 8

Misty basically summed-up what I was going to say - except that the reason a validly married catholic cannot get a divorce is not because "you made a promise to God". A valid sacramental marriage CANNOT be dissolved except by death. In a valid sacramental marriage the two spouses become "one flesh". There is a permanent change in the spouses that is impossible to reverse.

Answer 9

no, it's not correct - the State will allow divorce. In the church itself, one can apply for an annulement - this will require a separate application to the Church.

Answer 10

no...
if u still insist on divorce, u could only get divorce by law
and according to the catholic law, ur still married. so if the next time u want to re-married, u can't do it in the catholic church