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An internet article is circulating about the alleged statement of the Catholic Church (through our beloved Lolo Archbishop Oscar Cruz) that infertile people cannot marry.
Let’s have a crash course on Canon Law (Codex Iuris Canonicis), a body of laws and regulations governing the Catholic church.
Canon 1084, Section 1 states that: Antecedent and perpetual impotence to have intercourse, whether on the part of the man or the woman, whether absolute or relative, nullifies marriage by its very nature.
It nullifies. It means it can be a ground for annulment, the dissolution of marriage (In Tagalog, pagpapawalang-bisa ng kasal. Ibig sabihin, may nangyari ng kasal).
It further states on the succeeding sections of Canon 1084:
Section 2: If the impediment of impotence is doubtful, whether by a doubt about the law or a doubt about a fact, a marriage must not be impeded nor, while the doubt remains, declared null.
Section 3: Sterility neither prohibits nor nullifies marriage, without prejudice to the prescript of Canon 1098..
Canon 1098 states that:
A person contracts invalidly who enters into a marriage deceived by malice, perpetrated to obtain consent, concerning some quality of the other partner which by its very nature can gravely disturb the partnership of conjugal life.
One basis of the validity of marriage is if the two parties freely gave their matrimonial consent - without deceit, coercion, etc.
Ngayon, kung alam ng isang tao na siya ay baog, at hindi niya ito sinabi sa kanyang mapapangasawa bago ang kasal, maaari itong maging basehan ng pagpapawalang bisa ng kasal.
That will make their marriage invalid. (i.e. Naikasal na silang dalawa at ito’y mapapawalang bisa.)
But can sterile people be married? Of course. Provided that no decet is done during the exchange of vows. (i.e. Hindi itinago sa makakaisang dibdib na siya ay baog.)
The bottom line? Three words: They. Can. Marry.
I first opted to stay quiet and quietly observe the internet but I decided to change my mind. It’s 2012. I need to do something for the institution that I treated as my second home.
This is the internet. Dare to ask questions. Do your research. Do not be a gullible Catholic.
Magandang umaga sa inyong lahat!
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