A little late to the party as well on this, as I am just now catching up on podcasts after a trip to Rome earlier this month. One point of clarification regarding the discussion of whether mixed marriage is an invalidating impediment. When you went to the code to confirm this, you went to the wrong code. Joe and Jill attempted marriage i…
A little late to the party as well on this, as I am just now catching up on podcasts after a trip to Rome earlier this month. One point of clarification regarding the discussion of whether mixed marriage is an invalidating impediment. When you went to the code to confirm this, you went to the wrong code. Joe and Jill attempted marriage in 1977, and you went to the 1983 code. The code in effect at the time of attempted marriage was the 1917 code, and under that code, mixed religion was also an invalidating impediment (CIC 17 cc 1060-1064). This was changed in the 1983 code to only require permission and no longer an invalidating impediment. So unless Jill Stevenson (née Jacobs) was baptized Catholic (which isn't apparent in the facts presented), her protestant baptismal status would have been irrelevant. They would have needed a dispensation from disparity of cult and/or mixed religion.
A little late to the party as well on this, as I am just now catching up on podcasts after a trip to Rome earlier this month. One point of clarification regarding the discussion of whether mixed marriage is an invalidating impediment. When you went to the code to confirm this, you went to the wrong code. Joe and Jill attempted marriage in 1977, and you went to the 1983 code. The code in effect at the time of attempted marriage was the 1917 code, and under that code, mixed religion was also an invalidating impediment (CIC 17 cc 1060-1064). This was changed in the 1983 code to only require permission and no longer an invalidating impediment. So unless Jill Stevenson (née Jacobs) was baptized Catholic (which isn't apparent in the facts presented), her protestant baptismal status would have been irrelevant. They would have needed a dispensation from disparity of cult and/or mixed religion.