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You said:
I was also married before for two years. Will that
be an issue?
The Church would have to check on the validity of
any previous marriage.
These paragraphs from the Catechism will give you
the mind of the Church, on this issue:
III. MATRIMONIAL CONSENT
1625 The parties to a marriage covenant are a
baptized man and woman, free to contract marriage,
who freely express their consent; "to be free" means:
- not being under constraint;
- not impeded by any natural or ecclesiastical
law.
1626 The Church holds the exchange of consent
between the spouses to be the indispensable element
that "makes the marriage."
If consent is lacking there is no marriage.
1627 The consent consists in a "human act
by which the partners mutually give themselves
to each other": "I take you to be my
wife" - "I take you to be my husband." This
consent that binds the spouses to each other finds
its fulfillment in the two "becoming one flesh."
1628 The consent must be an act of the will of
each of the contracting parties, free of coercion
or grave external fear. No human power can substitute
for this consent. If this freedom is lacking the
marriage is invalid.
1629 For this reason (or for other reasons that
render the marriage null and void) the Church,
after an examination of the situation by the competent
ecclesiastical tribunal, can declare the nullity
of a marriage, i.e., that the marriage never existed.
In this case the contracting parties are free to
marry, provided the natural obligations of a previous
union are discharged.
