An introductory paper offered for discussion at the first meeting of the ARCJPC sub-commission on mixed marriage, held at Windsor from 16-18 April, 1968.

The paper explores questions of Roman Catholic Canon Law, as it pertains to mixed marriage, particularly its historical development, the 1917 Code of Canon Law, and the post-Vatican II decree Matrimonii Sacramentum (1966). Detailed discussion of the impediments of marriage and disparity of cult.