Published: 2020-01-251

ALCOHOLISM AS A REASON FOR INVALIDITY OF MARRIAGE IN THE LIGHT OF SELECTED CASES OF NULLIFYING A MARRIAGE IN THE BISHOP`S COURT OF THE ELK DIOCESE

Paweł Makarewicz
Civitas et Lex
Section: Canon Law
https://doi.org/10.31648/cetl.4631

Abstract

Catholic Church instructs, that „a marriage that is ratum et consummatum can be dissolved by no human power and by no cause, except death” (Can. 1141). However there are some cases, when marriage has not come into being from its start. Church tribunals lead investigations in such cases to show the truth about the marriage. Canon 1095 gives three conditions that would make a person unable to contract marriage from mental incapacity: „They are incapable of contracting marriage: 1o who lack the sufficient use of reason; 2o who suffer from grave lack of discretion of judgment concerning essential matrimonial rights and duties which are to be mutually given and accepted; 3o who are not capable of assuming the essential obligations of matrimony due to causes of a psychic nature”. The article aims at presenting a reason for invalidity of marriage which is alcoholism as exemplified by the diocesan tribunal of Elk.

Keywords:

alcoholism, nullity of a marriage, bishop’s court, Elk Diocese

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Makarewicz, P. (2020). ALCOHOLISM AS A REASON FOR INVALIDITY OF MARRIAGE IN THE LIGHT OF SELECTED CASES OF NULLIFYING A MARRIAGE IN THE BISHOP`S COURT OF THE ELK DIOCESE. Civitas Et Lex, 24(4), 45–56. https://doi.org/10.31648/cetl.4631

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