1. Some Pastoral Aspects of Marriage
•Same Sex Marriage
•Judicial Declaration of
Marriage Nullity (Accepted
Grounds)

2. Same Sex
Marriage

4. CBCP calls same-sex weddings
held in Baguio illegal and an insult
to the Catholic Church
After New York passed a law legalizing gay
marriage last week, several same-sex
weddings were held in Baguio City over the
weekend, and the Catholic Bishops’
Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) is
adamant that such unions will never be
recognized in the Catholic Church, reports
ABS-CBN News.

5. Senate bill 2814 : ANTI-ETHNIC, RACIAL OR RELIGIOUS
DISCRIMINATION AND PROFILING ACT O F 2011
Ronald Reyes, a lawyer of the CBCP, said they
had no qualms about the bill before but became
concerned when the bill was amended and “sex,
gender, sexual orientation, gender identity” were
included. “It’s opening the door for same sex
marriages, which our country doesn’t allow,”
Reyes told reporters. He said the Catholic
church, which would not officiate same sex
marriages, might be punished if the bill became
law. “This is alarming and it might change our
society,” Reyes said.

6. “Politics of Homosexuality”
by: Andrew Sullivan
 Marriage is not simply a private
contract; it is a public and social
recognition of a private
commitment. As such it is the
highest public recognition of our
personal integrity. Denying it to gay
people is the most public affront
possible to their civil equality.

7. What reasons
do gay and
lesbian people
give for society
supporting
same-sex
marriages?

8. Gerald D. Coleman, S.S:

9. “IS IT A CHOICE “
By: Eric Marcus
Insurance and pension plans
Eligibility for Social Security’s
Special tax exemptions and Survivor’s Benefits
deductions
THEY WANT
SAME LEGAL
PROTECTIONS
AND BENEFITS
Inheritance of Properties
Automatic rights for In case of death and
Survivorship that avoid emergency: Legal next of kin
inheritance tax

10. SAME-SEX
MARRIAGE
SOCIOLOGICAL
FACT OF DIVERSITY
VALUE JUDGMENT
OF LIVING
ARRANGEMENTS

11. AS MEMBERS
OF THE
CATHOLIC
CHURCH TO
RESPOND TO
THIS
QUESTION OF
SAME SEX
MARRIAGES?

12. TWO ASPECTS OF MARRIAGE:
PROCREATIVE ASPECT
• Procreation is not just a biological function because
humans do not just anonymously meet and mate
and move on.
• Procreation before conception.
• Procreation continues after conception. (love,
attention, education and guidance)
UNITIVE ASPECT
• A complementarity and union whose relationship
transcends sexual differences

13. To allow same-sex
marriage is to deny the
inherent procreative nature
of marriage and therefore
change its very definition
and essentially voids it.

14. Sexuality is not merely
a matter of biology,
nor is it simply a
source of personal
pleasure.

15. FAMILIARIS CONSORTIO
by: John Paul II
Sexuality consists the inner most
being of the human person as
such. It is realized in a truly
human way only if it is an integral
part of the love by which a man
and a woman commit themselves
totally to one another until death.

16. The law cannot require a married
couple to have children any more
than it can force them to love each
other or stay together for life. But,
at the very least, the law can
require that a marriage be modeled
in accord with its inherent
procreative nature which means, of
course, a male and a female.

17. The potential for children
justifies additional civil
requirements, namely,
that a couple be old
enough and not closely
related.

18. G.D. SULLIVAN, S.S. asks the
question:
IF ONE ELIMINATES
PROCREATION FROM THE
BASIC DEFINITION OF
MARRIAGE, ON WHAT LEGAL
BASIS COULD ONE STOP
THREE PEOPLE FROM
GETTING MARRIED, OR A
MOTHER AND A SON, ETC.?

20. SOCIETAL AND GOVERNMENTAL
CONCERNS
HAS ITS ROOT IN
THE BELIEF THAT
MARRIAGE
CONSTITUTES THE
MOST BENEFICIAL
ENVIRONMENT FOR
RAISING THE NEXT
GENERATION OF
CITIZENS

21. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO
JUSTIFY SPECIAL BENEFITS
TO MARRIED COUPLES IF
THESE BENEFITS ARE SEEN
FIRST AND FOREMOST AS
BENEFITS TO THE
SPOUSES THEMSELVES.

22. NO TO SAME SEX MARRIAGE

24. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
THE CHURCH AS A
MOTHER KNOWS HOW
TO PROVIDE FOR THE
ANGUISH NEEDS OF
HER CHILDREN
NOT COMPROMISING
THE SEVERITY AND
INFLEXIBILITY OF HER
DOCTRINES

25. MARRIAGE IS
INDISSOLUBLE
ABSOLUTE
DIVORCE IS
FORBIDDEN
JUDICIAL
DECLARATION OF
NULLITY

26. GENERAL GROUNDS ACCEPTED FOR
CATHOLIC MARRIAGE ANNULMENT
LACK OF CANONICAL FORM
LACK OF INTENTION
LACK OF FITNESS
THE GROUND OF NON-
SACRAMENTALITY
THE GROUND OF NON-CONSUMMATION

27. LACK OF
INTENTION
PURPOSELY EXCLUDING THE
THOUGHT OF MARRIAGE OR
ITS ESSENTIAL ASPECTS
INTENTION IS NOT FULLY
DELIBERATE

28. .• DELIBERATE LACK OF
INTENTION
. .
TOTAL SIMULATION PARTIAL SIMULATION
• EXCLUDING THE • REJECTING ANY
IDEA OF OF THE
MARRYING THE ESSENTIAL
OTHER. ASPECTS OF
• PLAYACTING MARRIAGE

29. • PARTIAL SIMULATION
. (PROCREATIVE ASPECT)
Plan to
regard • Plan to abstain completely
from genital coitus
marital • Plan to engage in sex only
sex entails during the safe periods
the when conception is
unlikely
prevention • Plan to use contraceptives
of or abortifacients
childbirth

30. • PARTIAL SIMULATION
. (UNITIVE ASPECT)
Exclusion of unity aspect happens when either
of the spouses has the idea of engaging in sex,
after the wedding, with third parties (old or new;
one or many; habitual or casually)
It is not necessary that one contemplates further
marriages to other partners but as long as he
goes through wedding with the plan of
continuing afterwards to have sex relations with
others.

31. • PARTIAL SIMULATION
. (INDISSOLUBILITY ASPECT)
Indissolubility aspect is excluded if either
spouses reserves to himself the option to
terminate the marriage relationship on any
future contingencies.
The Church maintains that marriage is for life,
therefore people not committing themselves to
the permanent status of marriage with one
partner are not contracting validly.

32. ON CONDITIONAL CONSENT
Conditions imposed if not
satisfied can invalidate marriage.
ON SILLY CONDITIONS
The Church cannot interfere with
your conditions but you must be
dead serious about imposing it
otherwise its not binding.

33. CONDITIONS REGARDING FUTURE
EVENTS
Certain event to take
place
• E.g. If the sun rises tomorrow.
Certain event not to take
place
• E.g. if it will rain spaghetti.
Sinful
• E.g. If you kill your witch step-mother.

34. INDELIBERATE LACK OF
INTENTION
DOES NOT
NO GENUINE
SPONTANEOUSLY
INVOLVEMENT DURING
EXPRESSING YOUR
WEDDING
COMMITMENT
• Absence of • Force
awareness • Fear
• Ignorance
• Error
• Insanity

35. . • Absence of awareness
Sleepwalking
Hypnotized
Dead-drunk
Drugged
In his/her Split Personality
It does not matter that a person had the
required intention before or after the
wedding. If during the wedding he is not
aware, his marriage is invalid.

36. IGNORANCE
Lack of minimal knowledge
Possession of the wrong info about Catholic
Marriage
• E.g. marriage is not a sacrament
• E.g. marriage is for fun
• E.g. marriage is for convenience
• E.g. marriage is not for procreation
• E.g. marriage is not for the mutual goodness of the spouses

37. ERROR IN REGARD TO THE PERSON
Mistaken identity (happens usually in
matchmaking or blind dating)
Mistaken personality (one has become
for you a different person from what he
was during courtship. This is tantamount
to error about physical identity.)

38. Force
Fear
Grave
Extrinsic
Unjust
In view of marriage

39. Can there be force and fear
that is just? If yes, does it
make sense?
What is reverential fear? Can
it be a ground for annulment?

40. LACK OF FITNESS

41. DIRIMENT IMPEDIMENTS
Underage Impotence Consanguinity Affinity
Spiritual Legal Public
Crime
relationship relationship propriety
Disparity of
Holy orders Solemn vows Abduction
cult
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