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The Requisites for a Pastor or Local Ordinary to Assist Validly at Marriage

What is required for the pastor or the ordinary to assist validly at a marriage.

The works themselves ask 33 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.

Also asked about as…

marrying outside your parish · pastor's authority to marry · which priest can witness a marriage validly (ed.)

In the index as Form of Celebrating Marriage · Parish Priest · Matrimony · Delegation · Assistance · Adoption or legal relationship · Article of death · Valid and licit assistance at matrimony · Witnesses · Assistant Presbyter · Assisting parish priest · Before Witnesses Alone · Bishop · Error · Fear · Marriage · Pastor · Possession · Vicar · A deaf person · A witness · Acceptance · Cessation · Chaplain

In the manuals

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Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)

Ludovicus Wouters, C.SS.R.

Vol. II, Bk. III, Tr. VIII, Diss. II, Pt. II, Insofar as It Is a Sacrament, Particularly, Sect. II, Ch. I, Art. I, § II, Point I. On the Requisites for a Pastor or Local Ordinary to Assist Validly at Marriage, n. 735 — In order that a pastor or local Ordinary assist validly at marriage, it is required: 1° that they have obtained canonical possession of the benefice or have entered the office; 2° that they not be excommunicated, interdi… Read in context →

Moral Theology: A Complete Course (McHugh & Callan)

John A. McHugh, O.P., and Charles J. Callan, O.P. — 4 passages

Vol. II, Pt. II, Q. IV, Art. 4. Holy Orders; Matri…, The Celebration of Marriage, nn. 2826, 2827, 2828 & 2829 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)

Compendium of Moral Theology of Fr. John Peter Gury, S.J., with the Notes of Antonio Ballerini, S.J.

Jean-Pierre Gury, S.J.; notes by Antonio Ballerini, S.J. — 11 passages

Vol. II, Treatise on Matrimony, Ch. VI, Art. II, § II, Point XI. On the Impediment of Clandestinity, nn. 845, 849 & 851 (11 passages — hover a number to read it)

Manuale Theologiae Moralis

Dominic M. Prümmer, O.P. — 5 passages

Vol. III, Pt. II, Tr. X, Ch. VIII, Art. II, § 1. The Valid and Licit Ordinary Celebration of Matrimony, nn. 756, 762, 763, 764 & 765 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Benedict Henry Merkelbach, O.P. — 25 passages

Vol. III, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On Matrimony, Second Part: On the Celebr…, Question Three: On the Form or Rite of the Celebration of Matrimony, n. 846 (25 passages — hover a number to read it)

Compendium of Moral Theology

Aloysius Sabetti, S.J., and Timothy Barrett, S.J. — 38 passages

Vol. II, Tr. XVIII, Chapter VII. On the Celebration of Marriage, nn. 904, 906, 906, Q. 2, 906, Q. 3, 906, Q. 4, 906, Q. 5, 906, Q. 6, 906, Q. 7, 906, Q. 8, 906, Q. 9, 906, Q. 10, 906, Q. 11, 907, 909, Q. 9, 911, 911, Q. 2, 911, Q. 3, 911, Q. 4, 911, Q. 5, 911, Q. 6, 911, Q. 7, 911, Q. 8, 911, Q. 9, 911, Q. 10, 911, Q. 11, 911, Q. 12, 911, Q. 13, 911, Q. 14, 911, Q. 15, 911, Q. 16, 911, Q. 17, 911, 912, 913, Q. 8, 914, 917, Q. 3, 917, Q. 10 & 917 (38 passages — hover a number to read it)

Christian Theology, Dogmatic and Moral, in Compendium

Daniele Concina, O.P.

Diss. I, Chapter VII — On clandestine matrimony, on the banns, and on the other things which ought to precede matrimony, n. XIII — XIII. A parish priest is called by force, guile, or fear to assist at a matrimony: is this matrimony to be called valid? The more recent authors commonly affirm it, and adduce several declarations of the Congregation of … Read in context →

Treated under the broader heading The Ordinary Juridic Form — Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Tanquerey — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)