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Are children of an annulled marriage considered illegitimate?
Can I be ordained online to officiate a wedding?
Can my friend remarry civilly before her fiance's annulment, then have the marriage blessed?
Jim Blackburn
If I married a non-baptized person in a civil wedding, do I need an annulment to remarry?
Jim Blackburn
Are Eastern Masses valid? Should Catholics receive Communion at them?
Michelle Arnold
Why is baptism outside the Church valid but marriage outside the Church is not?
Jim Blackburn
Is marrying a relative allowed by the Church?
Jim Blackburn
If two Lutherans are married and they get a divorce in a civil court, can either remarry in the Catholic Church?
Jim Blackburn
Why does the Church recognize Protestant baptism if Protestantism has no valid priesthood?
Jim Blackburn
Doesn't the new Mass reject Pope St. Pius V's mandate in Quo Primum requiring the Tridentine Mass?
Jim Blackburn

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"Between heresy and schism there is this difference, that heresy perverts dogma, while schism, by rebellion against the bishop, separates from the Church. Nevertheless there is no schism which does not trump up a heresy to justify its departure from the Church."

~ St. Jerome, (In Ep. ad Tit., iii, 10), remarking on how practically and historically, heresy and schism nearly always go hand in hand.