But common law marriages were not sacramental.  The 'abuses' that the church addressed were not the poor who had common law marriages, but the hierarchy who wanted their SONS to inherit 'well-heeled' parishes and to promote a 'family line' [called nepotism] in keeping those churches in "the family."

Sorry, but the TRUTH is God---and God is not a possession of the Catholic Church nor of any other church or religion.