TRIBUNAL 3725 Blackburn Street Diocese of Dallas PO Box 190507 Dallas Texas 75219 (214) 379-2840 [email protected]
PETRINE PRIVILEGE QUESTIONNAIRE – Petitioner FAVOR OF THE FAITH (one party baptized) (as of August 28, 2014)
Petitioner: ______
______(Priest or deacon verifies identity if Petitioner unknown to him)
In the answers you provide, please indicate whether the source of your information is firsthand or from someone other than yourself. If the source is not firsthand, indicate from whom, when and under what circumstances you obtained this information.
Please know that any reference to child or elder abuse required by law to be reported may have to be reported by this Tribunal.
1. Do you solemnly affirm that you will tell the truth to the best of your ability?
2. a. What religion did you profess at the time of your marriage with your former spouse?
b. What religion did your former spouse profess?
3. a. What religion do you profess at the present time?
b. What religion does your former spouse now profess?
4. Do you believe that baptism is necessary for salvation?
5. a. Have you ever been baptized, christened, or sprinkled in any religion?
If so, when? Where?
In what religion?
b. Was this the only time that you were baptized, christened, or sprinkled in any religion?
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6. a. Has your former spouse ever been baptized, christened, or sprinkled in any religion?
If so, when? Where?
In what religion?
b. What is the source of your information concerning the baptism of this party?
7. When and where did you finally and definitely separate from your former spouse?
8. a. What was the actual cause of the breakup of the union?
b. Were you the direct cause for the departure of your former spouse? If so, what was the cause?
c. Was your current/proposed spouse in any way responsible for the breakup of your previous marriage?
d. If you have any reason to believe that your previous marriage may have been invalid, please explain the reason.
9. a. Who filed for the civil divorce?
b. When and where was the final divorce obtained?
c. Is reconciliation between you possible? If not, why not?
10. a. Did either you or your former spouse remain unbaptized, unchristened, or unsprinkled during the entire time of your marital association? If so, which one of you?
b. Was this party subsequently baptized, christened, or sprinkled?
c. When, where and in which church did this subsequent baptism take place?
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d. What is the source of your information?
e. Was reconciliation attempted after one of you was baptized, christened, or sprinkled?
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Questions 11 to 23 are asked only of the party claiming to have been unbaptized during the marital association.
11. When and where were you born?
12. a. What are the names and addresses of your parents?
b. What religion did each of your parents profess at the time of your birth and early childhood?
c. Did each practice this religion? (Give name and address of church.)
d. Did they believe that baptism was necessary for salvation?
13. Were you under the custody of anyone besides your parents? If so, give names, addresses and years of custody.
14. Were you baptized, christened, or sprinkled in any religion in infancy or early childhood?
15. Give the names, addresses and ages of brothers and sisters;
Name Address Age
a. Which of them were baptized, christened, or sprinkled in infancy or early childhood?
b. Why were you not baptized in infancy or early childhood?
16. a. Were you baptized, christened, or sprinkled in later life?
b. If so, when, where, and in which church?
c. Was this before or after your total separation from your former spouse?
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17. If you attended Sunday School or church, please give the following information.
Church Address Dates of Attendance
18. Why were you not baptized, christened, or sprinkled in this church?
19. If you attended church schools, please give the following information.
Church Address Dates of Attendance
20. Did you ever join any church? If so, give the following information.
Church Address Joining Date
21. Have you ever been seriously ill in a hospital where you could have been baptized, christened, or sprinkled while unconscious? If so, give name and address of hospital and date.
22. Are you absolutely certain that you have not been baptized, christened, or sprinkled in any religion before or during the entire time of your marital association with your former spouse?
23. Please give the names and addresses of persons who can testify that you were never baptized, sprinkled, or christened during the entire time of your marital association with your former spouse.
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The remaining questions are always asked:
24. a. Were any children born of your marriage to your former sposue?
b. If so, how many and when?
c. Who has custody of these children?
d. Is child support being paid?
e. What provision has been made for the religious upbringing of the children?
f. Are you under any legal or moral obligation to provide for the welfare of your former spouse?
25. a. Have you married again since your separation from your former spouse?
b. Is this marriage still in existence?
26. When did you first become interested in embracing the Catholic religion?
27. To what extent do you practice the Catholic religion?
28. a. If you intend to become a Catholic, but have not yet done so, how firm are your intentions of entering the Catholic Church?
b. Who is the priest(s) or deacon(s) who has given you instructions in Catholicism?
29. a. When did you first meet your proposed or current/proposed spouse?
b. Have you attempted civil marriage with this person?
c. Have any children been born of this union? Give names and ages.
d. Have these children been baptized? Give dates and church.
e. What are the plans for the religious training of these children?
f. Will the Catholic party in the new marriage do his/her best to see that the children of that marriage are baptized and reared as Catholics?
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30. When and from whom did you first learn that a dissolution of your marriage might be possible?
31. Do you believe that there will be any scandal, surprise or false interpretation among Catholics or non- Catholics, as if the Church approved divorce, in the event that a favorable solution is given in this case?
32. If the marriage to be dissolved was originally entered into with a dispensation from disparity of cult:
a. Were there relatively few Catholics in the region in which the marriage took place?
b. Was it difficult for the Catholic to practice his/her faith in that marriage?
c. How much publicity surrounded this marriage?
33. Will a dispensation from disparity of cult be necessary for this new marriage to take place?
34. Has either party to the new marriage ever been the recipient of a Favor of the Faith before?
35. Has anyone instructed you as to how to answer these questions?
36. Have you anything to add, correct or delete in your testimony?
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Please take the following oath: I solemnly affirm that, in answer to the above questions, I have told the truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God.
(Signed) Petitioner (include maiden name if a woman)
Affirmed and signed in my presence on this day of , at .
Priest or Deacon
The priest or deacon will give his impressions of the party and reliability of testimony. If he knows the party personally, this should be indicated.
Priest or Deacon
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