Fortunately the Church is not guided by emotion, but by the Holy Spirit in all things.
One of prerequisites for a valid marraige is the ability to attempt to have children, because one of the reasons for marriage is the having of children.
Yes this couple can adopt and can still receive the other sacraments but Church law is Church law.
I suppose the Roman Church would not have married Sarah and Abraham.
Genesis 2:18 and 2:24 make no mention of procreation.
Couple has to be open to children at time of marriage. A reason why Church is against gay ‘marriage’. This also applies to impotent senior citizens.
But very often bears no relation to God's law.
So women past menopause can not marry in the Catholic church because they cannot have children?
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
Then how come the Catholic Church doesn’t refuse to perform any marriage involving a woman who is clearly past natural child-bearing age?
I’m sorry but I find that ridiculous. How on earth could the bishop know that this man’s impotence will never be cured? Doctors are finding new ways to help infertile couples conceive all the time, and who knows, a miracle may happen for this couple. It seems very arrogant of this bishop to assume he knows the future better than God.
That bishop seems to be so religious, he has lost the ability to have compassion. Sanctimonious only leads to cruelty.
Hadn't you heard that life isn't about truth? It's about feelings.
If you don't get the answer you really, really wanted when you ask a question, it's because the truth is mean.
No one here wants a God who asks sacrifices of us.
What about older couples who want to marry?
And they wonder why the Church is dying in the Western World. 1/3 of Americans raised in the Church wind up leaving it, per Pew.