Ep. 125: World Youth Day Barbie
The Pillar Podcast
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The Church's Authority to Judge the Validity of Marriage
The church has the authority to examine that first union and to say, okay, was the civil marriage between two atheists in a courthouse. Even if an unbaptized atheist doesn't wish to marry a Catholic but just wants to know about the validity of their marriage, they have the right to petition the tribunal to make a judgment," he says. Bishop Hubbard: "We don't mean that the church says that he's not qualified to contract marriage"
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