Disidentes y nuevos disidentes.: El matrimonio civil y el matrimonio canónico en Chile republicano

Abstract

In this research the author maintains that neither the State of Chile nor the Catholic Church in Chile imposed the religious marriage to those who are non-catholic, but rather that there were civil effects recognized to marriage of dissidents and non-believers in such a way that this monopoly of the Church over marriage did not exist, discarding the thesis of the so-called catholic imposition that can still be found in official documents of the Chilean Episcopate. It then states that with article 20 of the Law 19.947 there has been a qualitative change in the Chilean society where Catholics are the "new dissidents".