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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know what church you are talking about, but you can’t get married at city hall and then use a Catholic priest To re-marry you at a later event.  Priests won’t go along with this even in a pandemic.[/quote]

You actually can.  It's called marriage convalidation.  It's weird to plan it this way though. Usually it happens because the Catholics aren't really practicing the faith at the time they get married in city hall, but they later recommit to their faith and need to get married through the Church in order to receive all of the sacraments.  Priests are very happy to help people get reconnected with their faith.  I've also known couples who needed to get a fast civil marriage done in order to be at the beside of a dying partner in the hospital or to get a Green Card for a fiance to stay in the country (after a student visa expires, for example).  As long as they get married by the Church as soon as they can and don't act as if the civil marriage is actually a marriage (i.e. remain chaste), I think that most priests would understand this.[/quote]

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