What authority has the Political Power on True Marriages?
“‘Wherefore, it is evident (…) that even in the state of nature and at all events long before it was raised to the dignity of a Sacrament properly so-called, marriage was divinely constituted in such a way as to involve a perpetual and indissoluble bond, which consequently cannot be dissolved by any civil law. Therefore, although a marriage may exist without a Sacrament, as in the case of marriage between infidels, even so, being a true marriage, it must and does retain the character of a perpetual bond, which from the very beginning has been by divine law inseparable from marriage and over which no civil power has any authority. Therefore, if a marriage is said to be contracted, either it is so contracted as to be a true marriage, in which case it carries with it that perpetual bond which by divine law is inherent in every true marriage or else it is deemed to be contracted without this perpetual bond, in which case it is not a true marriage at all but an illicit union objectively c
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