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INTER OMNIGENAS
ENCYCLICAL OF BENEDICT XIV
FEBRUARY 2, 1744 [excerpt] |
14. If the wife of a Catholic runs off to the Turks and dares to contract with one of them a criminal alliance, her husband may not marry another in her stead; for marriage, indissoluble by divine right so long as the parties to it live, cannot be dissolved by this woman's crime. Therefore any man who, in such a case, marries another woman, is guilty of adultery, and must be refused access to the sacraments, unless he has completely separated himself from the woman.
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BENEDICT XIV
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