Pauline privilege

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The Pauline privilege (Latin: privilegium Paulinum) is the allowance by the Roman Catholic Church of the dissolution of marriage of two persons not baptized at the time the marriage occurred.^[1] The Pauline privilege is drawn from the apostle Paul's instructions in the First Epistle to the Corinthians.