[Sir_Ed]

Or men who are sterile because of radiation treatments cannot marry, either, in the church...as they cannot ever father children?

This seems like an insane policy...

Ed

[wideawake]

Or men who are sterile because of radiation treatments cannot marry, either, in the church...as they cannot ever father children?

Impotence is an impediment, not sterility.

[Burkean]

Impotence is not the same thing as sterility. The Church uses the ability to consummate as the grounds for a marriage.