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What is the official Catholic position on heterosexual civil partnerships?
First question: is a "civil partnership" a marriage?
This seems to be a UK-specific question. This government website defines civil partnership as almost the same thing as a marriage except ...
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What is the official Catholic position on heterosexual civil partnerships?
All sexual relationships between any people not married to each other are a sin.
Furthermore,
Can. 1057 §2. Matrimonial consent is an act of the will by which a man and a woman mutually give and ...
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What is the official Catholic position on heterosexual civil partnerships?
The Catholic Church teaches that fornication (sex outside of marriage) is a serious sin. It does not matter whether the fornication occurs between Catholics, non-Catholics, non-Christians, non-...
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What is the official Catholic position on heterosexual civil partnerships?
Relevant to your question is the fact if you are catholics yourselves.
If you are catholics, it is easy: sex outside marriage is a sin. Any civil arrangements do not make a marriage, not even if civil ...
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