[Dumb_Ox]

Someone please show me where in canon law it says that love is a prerequisite for marriage.

You only have the fornicator's word that his marriage was refused because the priest thought they didn't love each other. The social need to legitimate a pregnancy can be considered the psychological equivalent of a "shotgun wedding." The duress involved could possibly be grounds for nullifying any marriage. I'm no canon lawyer, but it looks like he and his girlfriend could very well be impeded from contracting a valid marriage.

[Ad Orientam]

"You only have the fornicator's word that his marriage was refused because the priest thought they didn't love each other."

Thats something that could be easily determined with a phone call.

"The social need to legitimate a pregnancy can be considered the psychological equivalent of a "shotgun wedding." The duress involved could possibly be grounds for nullifying any marriage. I'm no canon lawyer, but it looks like he and his girlfriend could very well be impeded from contracting a valid marriage."

Thats a legitimate point which I did not weigh. This concern needs to be taken seriously. But it also needs to be remembered that people married for these reasons for centuries. Also arranged marriages were common in western culture until a little over a century ago. So I am still not convinced that this is a canonical impediment.