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Question The wife to be marries with a Mortal Sin on her soul unknown to her fiance. Without consultation or prior knowledge of her fiance, knowingly, purposfuly and making her decision alone, commits Mortal Sin just pror to the wedding. seeking out and receiveing birth control pills. When she tells her fiance just weeks before the wedding, her fiance says you cannot do this you are Catholic you canot be on birth control pills. We are gettoing married, this is not what married people do. The response is, it is my body and I wil do what I want with it.
The fiance plans to stop the weddig, but thn requires the both of them to go to confession believeing she would not dare to wthold a sin in Confession and the priest will order her to stop taking the pills, as he is supposed to do, according to Church teaching. He goes in firts while she waits for another priest to finidh. But when he comes out she is already standing their saying she is finished. They say their Pennance.
After the wedding, he discoveres she is still taking the birth ontrol pills. This cannot be merely a sacralige. Is this marriage not void because of the Mortl Sin and her intention?
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