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From: "Bill East" <[log in to unmask]>
> It's all very well to be ideal and saintly, but if they never
> consummated it, they never were married. They had grounds for an
> annulment.
Dear Oriens,
As you know I am an Easterner and I have never ever understood the peculiar
belief of the Church of Rome that God withholds the matrimonial grace until
the moment when He observes some physical mingling of bride and groom on the
sheets. What is the history of the development of this requirement of
physical consummation for RC marriage? Canon law?
Fr Ambrose
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