CHAPTER VI. Mixed Marriages

Can. 1124 Without express permission of the competent authority, a marriage is prohibited between two baptized

persons of whom one is baptized in the Catholic Church or received into it after baptism and has not defected from

it by a formal act and the other of whom is enrolled in a Church or ecclesial community not in full communion with

the Catholic Church.

Can. 1125 The local ordinary can grant a permission of this kind if there is a just and reasonable cause. He is not

to grant it unless the following conditions have been fulfilled:

1/ the Catholic party is to declare that he or she is prepared to remove dangers of defecting from the faith and

is to make a sincere promise to do all in his or her power so that all offspring are baptized and brought up in the

Catholic Church;

2/ the other party is to be informed at an appropriate time about the promises which the Catholic party is to

make, in such a way that it is certain that he or she is truly aware of the promise and obligation of the Catholic party;

3/ both parties are to be instructed about the purposes and essential properties of marriage which neither of

the contracting parties is to exclude.

Can. 1126 It is for the conference of bishops to establish the method in which these declarations and promises, which

are always required, must be made and to define the manner in which they are to be established in the external

forum and the non-Catholic party informed about them.

Can. 1127 §1. The prescripts of can. 1108 are to be observed for the form to be used in a mixed marriage.

Nevertheless, if a Catholic party contracts marriage with a non-Catholic party of an Eastern rite, the canonical form

of the celebration must be observed for liceity only; for validity, however, the presence of a sacred minister is

required and the other requirements of law are to be observed.

§2. If grave diYculties hinder the observance of canonical form, the local ordinary of the Catholic party has

the right of dispensing from the form in individual cases, after having consulted the ordinary of the place in which

the marriage is celebrated and with some public form of celebration for validity. It is for the conference of bishops

to establish norms by which the aforementioned dispensation is to be granted in a uniform manner.

§3. It is forbidden to have another religious celebration of the same marriage to give or renew matrimonial

consent before or after the canonical celebration according to the norm of §1. Likewise, there is not to be a religious

celebration in which the Catholic who is assisting and a non-Catholic minister together, using their own rites, ask

for the consent of the parties.Can. 1128 Local ordinaries and other pastors of souls are to take care that the Catholic

spouse and the children born of a mixed marriage do not lack the spiritual help to fulfill their obligations and are

to help spouses foster the unity of conjugal and family life.

Can. 1129 The prescripts of cann. 1127 and 1128 must be applied also to marriages which the impediment of

disparity of cult mentioned in can. 1086, §1 impedes.