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To: Aquinasfan
Finally, this love is fecund. It is not confined wholly to the loving interchange of husband and wife; it also contrives to go beyond this to bring new life into being. "Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the procreation and education of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage and contribute in the highest degree to their parents' welfare."

Question: Does the Catholic Church refuse to marry couples who are no longer of childbearing age?

272 posted on 02/14/2002 7:49:50 PM PST by NYCVirago
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To: NYCVirago
While here I thought I'd answer for Aquinasfan.

No, the Catholic Church does not forbid such marriages.

What the Church does forbid is contraception in a marriage, between spouses who are fertile. (However, Natural Family Planning, which uses the natural bodily rhythms to determine fertile times and works with that, is acceptable when used for the right reasons.)

274 posted on 02/14/2002 9:51:08 PM PST by oremus
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