Matrimony

MATRIMONY BASIC R.C. BELIEF The Catechism of the Council of Trent made it clear that the first end of marriage was not procreation (A CATHOLIC DICTIONARY OF THEOLOGY, Vol. II, page 1). Pius XI’s encyclical CASTI CONNUBI (1930) stated that the procreation of children was “the primary purpose of marriage.” POST VATICAN II From 1989 CATHOLIC ALMANAC. “Catholics are bound by all marriage laws of the Church. Certain natural laws, in the Catholic view, bind all men and women, irrespective of their religious beliefs; accordingly, marriage is prohibited before the time of puberty, without knowledge and free mutual consent, in the case of an already exisiting valid marriage bond, in the case of antecedent and perpetual impotence.” (page 234)