What makes a marriage valid?
In order for marriage to be validly established, bride and groom must: – Have no impediments to marriage (e.g. being married to someone else) – Follow the proper form of the sacrament – Have the proper capacity to exchange consent and do so freely and unconditionally – Consent to what the Church intends by marriage, that is: – fidelity, – indissolubility and – openness to children. Is this just a Catholic thing? No. For millennia, civilizations have held to this view of marriage. Those societies who rejected it have crumbled from within. If a society does not embrace this understanding of marriage, history tells us it will experience several hardships, one of which is divorce. Other hardships might include the unwillingness on the part of men to care for women and the children they bore, unwed mothers, fatherless children, adultery, and increase in promiscuity, breakdown of the family, increased need for social services, etc. Give me an example of how someone could make an invalid cons
