two catholics marry and are divorced after they are baptized baptist?

Question

then one goes back to the catholic church.......the baptist remarries in a civil ceremony.
Can they remarry in the catholic church and be in good standing if he is still a baptist? what about his 2nd marriage?

Answer 1

The only way to get a real answer to this question is to present it to the local marriage tribunal.

If two confirmed Catholics are married in a sacramental rite and meet and the qualifications for "sacramental", then the marriage cannot be annulled in any way, shape or form. The couple might divorce in a civil arrangement, thereby dissolving the legal union between them, but they will still be considered married by the Catholic Church.

However, if both the couple were baptized in a Protestant church as adults, they both formally left the Catholic Church at that point. They excommunicated themselves. The Baptist church allows people to divorce and remarry, so they were both free to do so in that situation.

The one spouse who returned to the Catholic Church would have to present the situation before the marriage tribunal to determine whether or not she was free to remarry anybody in the Catholic Church.

However, if the baptist husband had remarried and divorced wife #2 and now wishes to remarry wife #1, the second marriage would very likely be considered simply an episode of fornication, and the "remarriage" to wife #1 basically a reestablishment of the marriage that had already existed.

Still, though, the issue of his self-excommunication (by being baptized Baptist) comes into play. The Church may or may not have a rule about Catholics in good standing marrying excommunicated Catholics. That I don't know, but a priest could tell you for sure.

And, just from personal experience, I foresee trouble for the couple if she is Catholic and he belongs to a church that teaches Catholics are the "whore of Babylon" as SOME (but not all) Baptist churches do.

Answer 2

All previous marriages, civil or religious, have to be dealt with before someone can be married in the Catholic Church.

The Catholic Church believes that God does not recognize civil divorces.

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

Wow that's difficult to follow.

Honestly, I don't think that scenario would ever happen.

But, the second marriage in the civil ceremony would not be recognized by the church. A civil divorce is not really recognized either. So, the Catholic church would still consider the two married sacramentally. But since one of the persons officially left the Church, that would be a problem. You cannot be in good standing with the Church if you officially renounced the teachings.

But if they wanted to remarry, I would think they wouldn't have to in the Church. The church still recognizes their initial marriage, but the government doesn't.

I'm not 100% sure on that, just my thoughts on it.

Answer 4

I suspect that this is a question for your priest, rather than for Yahoo Answers. My guess is that the person who has remarried has comitted fornication by the laws of the church (since they didn't obtain a divorce or annulment through the church before their marriage), and so the other spouse may be granted a divorce. Whether that leaves them free to marry in the Catholic Church, I do not know. It's just my best guess.

Answer 5

2 The Pharisees approached and asked, "Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?" They were testing him.
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He said to them in reply, "What did Moses command you?"
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They replied, "Moses permitted him to write a bill of divorce and dismiss her."
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But Jesus told them, "Because of the hardness of your hearts he wrote you this commandment.
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But from the beginning of creation, 'God made them male and female.
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For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother (and be joined to his wife),
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and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh.
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Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate."
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In the house the disciples again questioned him about this.
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He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her;
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and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery."

The Catholic Church follows this teaching as shown by the Catechism:

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The Lord Jesus insisted on the original intention of the Creator who willed that marriage be indissoluble. He abrogates the accommodations that had slipped into the old Law.
Between the baptized, "a ratified and consummated marriage cannot be dissolved by any human power or for any reason other than death."

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The separation of spouses while maintaining the marriage bond can be legitimate in certain cases provided for by canon law.

If civil divorce remains the only possible way of ensuring certain legal rights, the care of the children, or the protection of inheritance, it can be tolerated and does not constitute a moral offense.


2384 Divorce is a grave offense against the natural law. It claims to break the contract, to which the spouses freely consented, to live with each other till death. Divorce does injury to the covenant of salvation, of which sacramental marriage is the sign. Contracting a new union, even if it is recognized by civil law, adds to the gravity of the rupture: the remarried spouse is then in a situation of public and permanent adultery:


If a husband, separated from his wife, approaches another woman, he is an adulterer because he makes that woman commit adultery; and the woman who lives with him is an adulteress, because she has drawn another's husband to herself.

2385 Divorce is immoral also because it introduces disorder into the family and into society. This disorder brings grave harm to the deserted spouse, to children traumatized by the separation of their parents and often torn between them, and because of its contagious effect which makes it truly a plague on society.


2386 It can happen that one of the spouses is the innocent victim of a divorce decreed by civil law; this spouse therefore has not contravened the moral law. There is a considerable difference between a spouse who has sincerely tried to be faithful to the sacrament of marriage and is unjustly abandoned, and one who through his own grave fault destroys a canonically valid marriage.

Annulment of the first marriage is a another subject. If this is your situation, you should consult with your parish about the possibility of and the proper proceedures to annul the first marriage.

Answer 6

to this point as i comprehend, in case you have been married (Catholic wedding ceremony or no longer), it must be annulled. i'm uncertain the way it particularly works in case you're no longer even a Catholic. the best wager might to call your community church and confer with a clergyman. i grow to be married Catholic the 1st time and am in the technique of having it annulled. it is month 18 and there is not any bring about sight. regrettably, my now husband and that i planned our wedding ceremony in accordance to the advice of our community priest. He suggested it might take some 12 months, so we planned our wedding ceremony for a 12 months and a a million/2 out (thinking we've been being in charge for permitting the better 6 months). Ha! We had to be married by ability of a chum of my dad's kin, a Baptist preacher. yet i seem at it this sort, we are married in the eyes of God...i'm no longer too apprehensive approximately man made regulations. The anulment technique itself is diverse by ability of diocese. I had to fill out twelve pages of questions. Then they despatched my ex an identical questionnaire and gave him 30 days to respond (which he did no longer). Then they get a catalogue of witnesses from you and that they are despatched the 12 pages of questions. as quickly as all of this place of work work is achieved, this is given to a Catholic legal expert to summarise, it is going until now a Catholic opt to make a call. you're advised relating to the alternative (for or against the annulment) and the sentence (if annulment is being granted, you will acquire a sentence that must be fulfilled until you are able to now get married...it is generally counseling.). the ideas are the two despatched to an appellate courtroom and if all courts agree, this is your very final decision. If it is important on your fiance, discover out what it is going to take and attempt. yet he might desire to comprehend that it might desire to take years to get all of it carried out. Edit: you do no longer might desire to be Catholic to be married in the Catholic church. yet once you go with to no longer convert, you will might desire to sign a paper asserting which you will improve your infants Catholic...definite you may desire to conform to infants to be married Catholic besides. i'm hoping I responded all your questions

Answer 7

Why would you give any group of individuals this much power over what you do with your life? Go to Jesus yourself and have Him lead you. Catholics are not saved Christians anyway. Catholics are in an unsaved cult.

Answer 8

No.

Unless they got their marriage anulled.