Pauline privilege

Paul of Tarsus concurred but added an exception, known as the Pauline privilege.

Otherwise, by virtue of the "Pauline privilege", the converted husband may choose that one of his wives who allows herself to be baptized.

The procedure is fairly recent in the Catholic Church and is based on an extension of the Pauline privilege.

The Pauline privilege is usually seen as permitting divorce or annulment in cases where one of the partners is not a baptised believer.

They provide "exceptions" to being married because of extraordinary circumstances ("because of the impending crisis"), see also Pauline privilege.

However interfaith marriages are handled differently in Ezra 9-10 and 1 Corinthians 7 (the Pauline privilege).

She could, in theory, leave the non-Muslim husband and marry a Muslim one (analogous to the Pauline privilege among Catholics).

It is however also found in 1 Corinthians 7:10-11, showing that Paul believed it was Jesus' own teaching, but see also the Pauline privilege.

According to the Catholic Church's canon law, the Pauline Privilege does not apply when either of the partners was a Christian at the time of marriage.

Catholic Encyclopedia: Divorce (see Section B.1: The Pauline Privilege)

In essence, the Petrine Privilege is an extension of the logic of the Pauline privilege to cases of marriage between baptised and non-baptised spouses.

The Pauline Privilege (Privilegium Paulinum) is a Christian doctrine drawn from the apostle Paul's instructions in the First Epistle to the Corinthians.

Exceptions include if the divorce occurred prior to an applicant's conversion or for "scriptural causes" such as a former spouse's marital unfaithfulness or the abandonment of a Christian by a non-Christian partner (see Pauline privilege).

Where these circumstances exist or where a Christian has been divorced by an unbeliever (see Pauline privilege), the AG allows "the question of remarriage to be resolved by the believer in the Light of God's Word".

Such marriage is supported indirectly by part of the Pauline privilege, in 1 Corinthians 7:12-14, with the central sentence: "For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his (believing) wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband."

He also notes that, in John Paul's discussion of divorce, "not a single word is said about the so-called Pauline privilege (or about the extension of that privilege, which for a long time was falsely called 'Petrine'), which relaxes these rigorous conclusions").

In addition, the Catholic Church recognizes the Pauline privilege, wherein a Catholic may marry an unbaptized previously married person who consents to convert, but only if the unbaptized person's spouse refuses to become a Catholic also (similar to Muslim views on marrying previously-married non-Muslims).

Pauline privilege: In a case where two non-baptized are married, and one of them becomes a Christian afterwards, and the other will not get baptized and refuses to live in peace with the newly Christian partner, the marriage may be dissolved and the Christian partner is free to remarry in Church.