Appendix A: Individual Diriment Impediments

Note: Canon 11 states: “Merely ecclesiastical laws bind those

· baptized in the Catholic Church or received into it, and

· who enjoy the sufficient use of reason, and,

· unless the law expressly provides otherwise, have completed seven years of age.”

This means that some of the impediments do not bind non-Catholics (age, incest, affinity, sacred orders, religious profession, crime, public propriety, and adoption).