21.   Romelus, a relative of Aristide, and Port-au-Prince Archbishop Joseph Lafontant blessed the union under a special Vatican dispensation that allows former priests to marry in the church.

22.   The Vatican also forbids priests to marry.

23.   The Roman Catholic Church does not allow priests to marry.

24.   They were ordained in the Greek Catholic Church, which accepts Vatican authority but has its own rites and allows its own priests to marry.