Catholic doctrine on non-sacramental marriage
Natural marriage is the name given in Catholic canon law to the covenant "by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring", and is distinguished from a sacramental or Christian marriage, in which the two parties involved are baptized.[1][2][3][4]
- ^ Code of Canon Law, canon 1055
- ^ Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, canon 776
- ^ Adolfo N. Decanáy, Canon Law on Marriage (Ateneo University Press 2000 ISBN 978-97-1921710-7), p. 2
- ^ "Catholic Marriage and annulments". Archived from the original on 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2009-04-16.