Herman C. Hanko

Once, however, marriage is entered upon in the City (the church - DJE) of our God, where also from the first union of the two human beings marriage bears a kind of sacred bond (quoddam sacramentum, 'a kind of sacramental quality' - DJE), it can be dissolved in no way except by the death of one of the parties. 41 The sacrament of marriage in our time has been reduced and confined to one man and one woman, so that it is not lawful to ordain a minister of the Church unless he is the husband of...