Why does friar laurence want to help avoid marriage with paris in romeo and juliet?

help me!Why does friar laurence want to help avoid marriage with paris in romeo and juliet?
There are a lot of answers to this question, but the easiest one is that he sees an opportunity to help two young people who really love each other, and whose marriage could end the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues.Why does friar laurence want to help avoid marriage with paris in romeo and juliet?
Because at that point Juliet was already married to Romeo. So Juliet CANNOT marry Paris.





The problem is, he's in a tight spot, since he married the two without their parents' consent. And they are powerful families. He would probably, at the least, be facing a transfer to a less desirable place than Verona, if he had stepped forward and admitted what he'd done.





So he's trying to arrange a way out for everyone, until things blow over a little and the truth can be safely told.
Because he married Romeo and Juliet already