1014. Can the Church dispense from or remove these impediments to
marriage?
A. The Church can dispense from or remove the impediments to marriage
that arise from its own laws; but it cannot dispense from impediments
that arise from the laws of God and nature. Every lawmaker can change or
excuse from the laws made by himself or his equals, but he cannot, of
his own authority, change or excuse from laws made by a higher power.

Q. 1015. What is required that the Church may grant, when it is able,
dispensations from the impediments to marriage or from other laws?
A. That the Church may grant dispensations from the impediments to
marriage or from other laws, there must be a good and urgent reason for
granting such dispensations. The Church does not grant dispensations
without cause and merely to satisfy the wishes of those who ask for
them.

Q. 1016. Why does the Church sometimes require the persons to whom
dispensations are granted to pay a tax or fee for the privilege?
A. The Church sometimes requires the persons to whom dispensations are
granted to pay a tax or fee for the privilege: (1) That persons on
account of this tax be restrained from asking for dispensations and may
comply with the general laws; (2) That the Church may not have to bear
the expense of supporting an office for granting privileges to a few.

Q. 1017. What should persons who are about to get married do?
A. Persons who are about to get married should give their pastor timely
notice of their intention, make known to him privately whatever they
suspect might be an impediment to the marriage, and make sure of all
arrangements before inviting their friends.

Q. 1018. What timely notice of marriage should be given to the priest,
and why?
A. At least three weeks notice of marriage should be given to the
priest, because, according to the laws of the Church, the names of the
persons about to get married must be announced and their intended
marriage published at the principal Mass in their parish for three
successive Sundays.

Q. 1019. Why are the banns of matrimony published in the Church?
A. The banns of matrimony are published in the Church that any person
who might know of any impediment to the marriage may have an opportunity
to declare it privately to the priest before the marriage takes place
and thus prevent an invalid or unlawful marriage. Persons who know of
such impediments and fail to declare them in due time are guilty of sin.

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