To: Polycarp
If a couple lacks the maturity to be responsible parents, then they have no business getting married at that point in time. The primary purpose of marriage is procreative. If the couple is not ready for procreation, then the couple is not ready for marriage.
235 posted on 09/09/2003 2:32 PM PDT by traditionalist
Thank you. This should be obvious to any properly catechized Catholic.
236 posted on 09/09/2003 2:45 PM PDT by Polycarp Dittoes
247 posted on
09/09/2003 5:08:38 PM PDT by
Dajjal
To: Dajjal
One would suppose that you can be "ready for procreation" but still defensibly choose to delay it. Or am I missing something?
If a couple of college sophomores wish to marry, are they literally not supposed to until they graduate? You could argue that they're not going to be ready until they graduate because they won't be able to provide for a child. Seems to me that if they're "sure" and "prepared," they should marry ASAP. Then the NFP question becomes "Is our lack of financial wherewithal a 'serious' justification to use NFP?" True?
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