A JURIDICAL COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MORMON AND CATHOLIC MARRIAGE STRUCTURES As a Canon Lawyer and a Roman Catholic priest in Salt Lake City, I have had to develop a priesthood ministry and practice of church law in a state whose majority is Mormon and whose capital is the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The need to continue a religious dialogue with the LDS church requires the knowledge of the Church’s juridical structure of marriage in its similarities and differences with the Roman Catholic Church. I present a comparative study of law between the LDS church and the Roman Catholic Church on the institution of marriage, one of the most public faces of Mormonism and Catholicism in the modern world.

LANGES JAMES SILVA and DAVID KNOWLTON