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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xii of second marriages Can. 1142. Licet casta viduitas honorabilior sit, secundae tamen et ulteriores nuptiae validae et licitae sunt, firmo praescripto can. 1069, 2. 336. Although a chaste widowhood be more honorable, second and further marriages are valid and lawful, the prescriptions of can. 1069, 2, being observed. Can. 1143. Mulier cui semel benedictio sollemnis data sit, nequit in subsequentibus nuptiis eam iterum accipere. A.woman who has once received the solemn blessing can not receive it again in subsequent marriages. 337. 1. The teaching of the Church in regard to second marriages has always been the same as that of St. Paul, who exhorts widows to remain unmarried, without imposing it as an obligation, rather advising marriage when the single life might be too dangerous. (Rom. vii, 2, 3; 1 Cor. vii, 39, 40; 1 Tim. v, 14; cf. Hernias, lib. ii, Mand. iv, n. 4; Tertullian, Ad uxorem, ii, 1.) The Montanists and Novatians, who absolutely forbade second marriages, were condemned. (Nice, c. 8.) Those marriages, however, were looked upon with a disfavor, which was expressed by some ecclesiastical writers in such strong terms that at times they seem to amount to a formal condemnation. (Perrone, De Matrimonio Christiano, vol. iii, p. 73; Chardon, Histoire des Sacrements, Du Mariage, c. iv, art. 1; Martene, De antiquis Ecclesise ritibus, lib. i, c. ix, art 1.) In the Greek Church, from the beginning of the fourth century, second marriages were subjected to various penances. (Neocsesarea, 314, c. 3, 7; Ancyra, 358, c. 19; Laodicea, 380 ? c. 1; St. Basil, ad Amphilochium.) Third and fourth marriages were treated still more severely until they were condemned as unlawful or even as invalid except under certain...