CHAPTER VII. Marriage Celebrated Secretly

Can. 1130 For a grave and urgent cause, the local ordinary can permit a marriage to be celebrated secretly.

Can. 1131 Permission to celebrate a marriage secretly entails the following:

1/ the investigations which must be conducted before the marriage are done secretly;

2/ the local ordinary, the one assisting, the witnesses, and the spouses observe secrecy about the marriage

celebrated.

Can. 1132 The obligation of observing the secrecy mentioned in can. 1131, n. 2 ceases on the part of the local

ordinary if grave scandal or grave harm to the holiness of marriage is imminent due to the observance of the secret;

this is to be made known to the parties before the celebration of the marriage.

Can. 1133 A marriage celebrated secretly is to be noted only in a special register to be kept in the secret archive of

the curia.