Marriage
A marriage celebrated in due form, but without express permission of the competent authority of the Catholic Church, between a Catholic and another baptized person enrolled in a Church or ecclesial community not in full communion with the Catholic Church is "prohibited" (illicit), but is valid. On the other hand, a marriage celebrated in due form between a Catholic and an unbaptized person is invalid, unless dispensation has previously been obtained from the competent Church authority. Other cases in which a marriage is not merely illicit but invalid are indicated in canons 1083-1094 of the Code of Canon Law.
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“Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)