Does the priest ask for reasons to prevent a marriage during a Catholic wedding?

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I can't speak for the Deutscher Sprachraum directly, but in one of the English books I have there is...

Therefore if anyone can show any just cause why they may not lawfully be joined together, let him now speak, or else forever hereafter hold his peace.

Yes, that's almost exactly the wording in the Church of England's Book of Common Prayer. It's prescribed for use in the Personal Ordinariates, but that order of service can only be used by Ordinariate priests.

However, in the 1969 rite, this wording does not appear, nor does it appear in the 2016 English translation of the 1991 rite which is currently in use. Consequently I reason that it does not appear in the 1991 normative Latin rite — which I haven't been able to find online — and it would not normally be used in other translations (including German). It did not appear in the 1962 rite.

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Catholic Church has a system of announcing the proposed marriage inviting objections if any.It is called Marriage Bann , and is announced on more than one occasion during the Sunday Mass preceding the scheduled date of the marriage. The announcement is made in both the parishes which the would-be grooms are residents of.

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