Is there an age limit for Catholics to marry in a church?

[Anonymous]

Because of a woman’s fertility window?

[Anonymous]

I am 99.999% sure there is not.

[Anonymous]

Huh? No

[Anonymous]

I west to college in the 1990 with a guy whose mom was 50 when she had him back in the early 1970s. (No IVF).

[Anonymous]

No. You can also marry even if you are infertile.
The theology behind it is that God can perform miracles to make your pregnant if he wants - think about Elizabeth having John the Baptist at an advanced age.

[Anonymous]

13?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I west to college in the 1990 with a guy whose mom was 50 when she had him back in the early 1970s. (No IVF).

Most of these stories involve the “mother” actually adopting a baby from a young unwed relative, sometimes the daughter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I west to college in the 1990 with a guy whose mom was 50 when she had him back in the early 1970s. (No IVF).

She did not have him at age 50. Don’t be so naive.

[Anonymous]

My grandma had my dad at age 52.- not a Catholic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I west to college in the 1990 with a guy whose mom was 50 when she had him back in the early 1970s. (No IVF).

She did not have him at age 50. Don’t be so naive.

My grandmother had my youngest aunt shortly before her 50th birthday. I'd blame it on her eldest daughter except that she had already given birth to my cousin a few weeks prior. My grandfather was an alcoholic a-hole and the family was living in poverty. They centainly weren't adopting anyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. You can also marry even if you are infertile.
The theology behind it is that God can perform miracles to make your pregnant if he wants - think about Elizabeth having John the Baptist at an advanced age.

“Nuns’ theology,” maybe.

Canon 1084.3 provides that sterility neither forbids nor invalidates a marriage.

Under Canon 1098, however, concealment of the infertility from the putative spouse could invalidate an attempted marriage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I west to college in the 1990 with a guy whose mom was 50 when she had him back in the early 1970s. (No IVF).

She did not have him at age 50. Don’t be so naive.

Um, yes she did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I west to college in the 1990 with a guy whose mom was 50 when she had him back in the early 1970s. (No IVF).

Most of these stories involve the “mother” actually adopting a baby from a young unwed relative, sometimes the daughter.

Not the case here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I west to college in the 1990 with a guy whose mom was 50 when she had him back in the early 1970s. (No IVF).

She did not have him at age 50. Don’t be so naive.

My grandmother had my youngest aunt shortly before her 50th birthday. I'd blame it on her eldest daughter except that she had already given birth to my cousin a few weeks prior. My grandfather was an alcoholic a-hole and the family was living in poverty. They centainly weren't adopting anyone.

Yes it happens. Obviously it is rare. Although the kids were never told this, it was obviously an accident, too, at least back in the 1960s - 1990s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My grandma had my dad at age 52.- not a Catholic

Opps, I thought it was menopause.