Conditions for Catholic dissolution of marriage when both have been baptized
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I read in the *Wikipedia* article on the [Indissolubility of Marriage in the Catholic church](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_in_the_Catholic_Church#Indissolubility) that:
> a natural marriage, **even if consummated, can be dissolved** by the Church when to do so **favours the maintenance of the faith on the part of a Christian**, cases of what has been called [Pauline privilege](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_privilege) and [Petrine privilege](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrine_privilege) . In these cases, which require intervention by the [Holy See](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_See) , the Church admits real divorce, the actual dissolution of a valid marriage, as distinct from the granting by merely human power of a divorce that, according to Catholic theology, does not really dissolve the marriage bond.
Reading the linked articles on Pauline and Petrine privilege, a big condition is whether either party was correctly baptized at the time the marriage was validly contracted.
But what if one spouse became so opposed to the other's practice of the Catholic faith, let's say due to acting on some fundamentalistic Protestant tenet that calls a Catholic to be a non-Christian? How about when one spouse renounced his/her Christian faith altogether and became a hindrance to the Catholic spouse's practice of Catholicism?
**Are there any conditions where a consumated marriage between two validly baptized Christians (one of them Catholic) can be dissolved?** For the sake of this question, the marriage was registered in the parish of the Catholic party as a sacramental marriage.
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