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To: verga

Then how come the Catholic Church doesn’t refuse to perform any marriage involving a woman who is clearly past natural child-bearing age?


13 posted on 06/09/2008 1:46:14 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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Then how come the Catholic Church doesn’t refuse to perform any marriage involving a woman who is clearly past natural child-bearing age?

Because she is not thereby incapable of fulfilling the unitive purpose of marriage, even if she is involuntarily unable to fulfill the procreative.

39 posted on 06/09/2008 6:55:48 PM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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