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Church teaching holds that a family is based on the indissoluble marriage between a man and woman, until death does them apart. Therefore, neither a man nor a woman may divorce one another. If a man divorces his wife and marries another woman he commits the sin of adultery. The same goes for the woman. If, the man or the woman dies under the sin of adultery, they go to hell.

If one spouse should die, the other divorced living spouse may remarry, in the church, providing they meet all the conditions; rules of the Church. Moreover, the Church does allow an annulment of marriage under certain conditions, which are against church doctrine.

Yes. The Catholic Church does not recognize marriages outside of the Faith as needing annulments. The Episcopalian/Anglican (Church of England) marriage is the same as a civil marriage in the eyes of the Church. All that is necessary for this woman to be free to marry in the Catholic Church is a civil divorce from her previous husband, which she already has. Also, as a non-Catholic, she must make a formal promise to raise your future children as Catholics in order to be married in the Church. Just an FYI: because she is not a Catholic, your marriage can be performed in the Catholic Church and recognized as valid, but it will not be considered a sacrament. Only marriages between two Catholic are considered sacraments, so for mixed-faith marriages, any reference to the sacrament of holy matrimony are removed from the wedding ceremony (regardless of whether you have a Mass wedding or not.

First, it is important to know that the Church doesn't condemn you to hell. It is God that will judge you.

The divorced catholic should just seek an annulment. Odds are they will get it and you can marry them. Have the divorced catholic speak to the parish priest to get the process started.

According to the CC there is no such thing. In certain circumstances a priest may even recommend a "divorce" because the government does recognize divorce, and this secular divorce provides one with certain rights, protections ad responsibilities. A marriage lasts until death says the CC.

Modern thinkers, even priests, do not define the word "God" as that man in the sky who acts and thinks as human beings do. Making cosmic forces into human forms is a process known as "hypostasis." There is, of course, an infinite creative power at work in the universe which has originated trillions of trillions of stars and planets and forms of life, millions of new ones being created each hour of the day, and the nature of this power is obviously beyond the capacity of any of its creatures (meaning us), specks of protoplasm on a speck of dust in infinite space, to fully understand. The Divine Power you speak of is far to busy with an infinite cosmos to judge every single human action, and no one with an education now believes that this power will have individuals burn forever for the simple kinds of acts mentioned in your question. Don´t worry about it. Doesn´t your idea of God include infinite love and compassion and understanding ?

You might like to look into some of the references below to get into modern thinking on the subject.

You should try this one a Catholic and a Protestant married here on earth and bound for Heaven, giggles :) X May you have a blessed day :)

All they have to do is petition the church to annul the marriage - ie, pretend it never happened. Just fill out some forms and write them a check for $500 and viola! You're forgiven!

No! However, if you murder a lot and have enjoyed doing it and not regretting it even when you die, you might have a pretty good chance of going to hell. Think of hell as failure to love. Have you failed to love? =)

CAN A CATHOLIC SINGLE PERSON MARRY A CATHOLIC DEVORCED PERSON IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IF THE DEVORCED PERSON WAS MARRIED IN A CIVIL CERAMONY