Marriage dispensations and canon-law advisories

When a couple's situation calls for a dispensation or permission, Vianney flags it and helps you track the paperwork. The advisories inform; the priest remains the authority.

What gets flagged

• Disparity of cult (c. 1086) — one party is not baptized; this affects validity and needs a dispensation.
• Mixed religion (c. 1124) — one party is a baptized non-Catholic; this affects liceity and needs permission.
• Declarations and promises (cc. 1125–1126) — required in those cases.
• Canonical form (c. 1108) — noted for the Catholic party.

Track the paperwork

Record each dispensation or permission and move it along its status — gathering, submitted, tribunal review, decided — so you always know what is outstanding before the date.

A separate set of advisories for burial

The canon-law checks described above are about marriage. The same engine also raises advisory flags about burial and funeral-rite eligibility — cremation, who may receive an ecclesiastical funeral, and a pastor's-judgment denial — but those appear on a cemetery interment record, not here, and are resolved the same advisory-only way by a priest or deacon. See Interments and permits.

Tips

• Advisories never block you; they surface the issue and the guidance, and your decisions are logged.
• A wedding date cannot be set while an unresolved annulment is linked to the couple — the prior bond must be settled first.