does the Church allow marriage

[kateri05]

i understand that even those couples past childbearing years or otherwise rendered naturally infertile can still remain "open to life" in a spiritual way.

however, since in the one-flesh union of the marriage bed, the marriage vows become reality, or are spoken with the body, can someone, or someones, who are physically incapable of having sex (by birth or some kind of accident) able to be married?

i had thought that they weren't since one-flesh consummation would then be impossible, but my husband's RCIA director said otherwise.

so now im confuzzled

[cappie]

From the Code of Canon Law;

Can. 1084 §1 Antecedent and perpetual impotence to have sexual intercourse, whether on the part of the man or on that of the woman, whether absolute or relative, by its very nature invalidates marriage.

§2 If the impediment of impotence is doubtful, whether the doubt be one of law or one of fact, the marriage is not to be prevented nor, while the doubt persists, is it to be declared null.

Impotence invalidates a marrige only if it is antecedent, perpetual and certain.

it is antecedent if the condition if present at the time of the marriage, it is perpetual if it cannot be cured, it is certain when it is not the subject of doubt.

What is important is #2. Since there is a fundamental right to marry, the exercise of that right may not be impeded save only where there is established with certainty the extence of some condition, circumstance or situation which would render a person incapable of exercising it.