A Topic of Moral Theology

Age

The ages below which marriage is invalid, and the prudence of the law's further counsels.

Also asked about as…

child marriage · marrying young · minimum age for marriage (ed.)

In the index as Age · Impotence · Minors · Age as impediment · Children · Diriment Impediments of Marriage · Puberty · Castration · Children below puberty · Eunuch · Female · Impediment of marriage · Impediments · Impediments of matrimony · Impubes · Malice · Woman

In the manuals

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Summa of Moral Theology (Summa Theologiae Moralis)

Hieronymus Noldin, S.J. — 2 passages

Vol. III, Book Eight. On Matrimony., Question Five. On the Impe…, Article Three. On Diriment…, Section 1. Age., nn. 569 & 570 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries

Thomas Slater, S.J.

Vol. II, Bk. IX, Ch. X, Article II. Age, n. 1 — Males under sixteen years of age and females under fourteen are presumed not to have that maturity of judgement which is requisite for entering the married state. The Church has made them incapable of marrying by requiri… Read in context →

Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)

Ludovicus Wouters, C.SS.R.

Vol. II, Bk. III, Tr. VIII, Diss. II, Pt. II, Insofar as It Is a Sacrament, Particularly, Sect. III, Ch. III, Article I. Age, n. 770 — I. By natural law a determinate age is not required for the validity of marriage, but it suffices that someone has arrived at the use of reason, knows the nature of marriage sufficiently, and will have the power of coeun… Read in context →

Compendium of Moral Theology of Fr. John Peter Gury, S.J., with the Notes of Antonio Ballerini, S.J.

Jean-Pierre Gury, S.J.; notes by Antonio Ballerini, S.J. — 3 passages

Vol. II, Treatise on Matrimony, Ch. VI, Art. II, § II, Point X. On the Impediment of Age, n. 835 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Manuale Theologiae Moralis

Dominic M. Prümmer, O.P.

Vol. III, Pt. II, Tr. X, Ch. IX, Art. III, § 1. Defect of Age, n. 796 — 796. Notion. The impediment of age is the defect of legitimate age. For the Code of Canon Law, can. 1067, establishes: "A man before the completed sixteenth year of age, and a woman likewise before the completed fourteen… Read in context →

Pastoral Questions

Benedict H. Merkelbach, O.P. — 15 passages

Ch. V, Article I: Age, nn. 98, ¶5996, ¶5997, ¶5998, 99, ¶6000, ¶6001, ¶6002, 100, ¶6004, ¶6005, ¶6006, ¶6007, 101 & ¶6009 (15 passages — hover a number to read it)

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Benedict Henry Merkelbach, O.P. — 20 passages

Vol. III, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On Matrimony, Third Part: On the Impedim…, Question Three: On Dirimen…, Article I: On the Impediment of Age, nn. ¶1, 873, 874 & 875 (20 passages — hover a number to read it)

Compendium of Moral Theology

Aloysius Sabetti, S.J., and Timothy Barrett, S.J. — 2 passages

Vol. II, Tr. XVIII, Ch. VI, Art. II, § II. On Impediments in Particular, n. 875 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treated under the broader heading Impediments of Marriage — McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Tanquerey · Koch–Preuss · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Concina, Compendium · Slater, Cases II · The Casuist · The Roman Catechism · 1917 Code of Canon Law — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)