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Section II. On the Dissolution of Marriage Between a Baptized Party and a Non-Baptized Party

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839.

I. The petition to be directed to the Supreme Pontiff should be transmitted to the Holy Office, to which this cause is committed.

II. The conditions required so that a marriage between a baptized party and a non-baptized party may be dissolved are:

  1. If the non-baptized party desires to be converted to the Catholic Church, he or she should first be baptized, so as to be subjected to the jurisdiction of the Church. Besides, it is required that after receiving baptism he or she has not had copula with the spouse; otherwise there would be a marriage consummated after the baptism of both parties, which cannot be dissolved by the Church. In addition, juridical proof is demanded by which it is proved that baptism had in no way previously been conferred, or had been conferred invalidly.

  2. If the baptized party wishes to be converted to the Church, he or she must first in fact be converted to it.

  3. Finally, other things are to be inserted into the petition; these indeed will be investigated and inserted by the one to whom this matter is committed.

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