Question — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology
Question Eight. On the Form of the Celebration of Matrimony.
642.
642. Principle. Only those marriages are valid which are contracted before the parish priest or the local ordinary or a priest delegated by either of them, and at least two witnesses, yet according to the rules expressed in the canons of the new Code.1
Here these things are to be explained: a. who is the competent parish priest; b. who is the delegated priest; c. who are the witnesses; d. who are held by this form; e. concerning the cessation of the obligation to the form.
To avoid doubts which could easily arise in this part, by the name delegation here is signified the faculty of assisting validly; by the name license, the faculty of assisting licitly.
1 Cn. 1094.
Within this question
- Article One. On the Competent Parish Priest.nn. 643–648
- Article Two. On the Delegated Priest.n. 649
- Article Three. On Witnesses.n. 650
- Article Four. On Those Who Are Held by This Form.n. 651
- Article Five. When the Obligation to the Form Ceases.n. 652
- Article One. On the Time of Celebration.n. 653
- Article Two. On the Place of Celebration.n. 654
- Article Three. On the Contracting Parties.n. 655
- Article Four. On the Assisting Parish Priest.n. 656
- Article Five. On the Matrimonial Rite.n. 657
- Article Six. On the Celebration of Mixed Matrimony.nn. 658–659
- Article Seven. On Inscribing the Matrimony.n. 660