Abstract
The teaching of the Catholic Church on matrimony has ceased placing the legal centre of marriage on procreation alone. The Vatican II Council and the present Code of Canon Law which translates its decisions into legal terms considers that marriage is the creation of a couple - and the state of life which results from it — where the inaugural consent of the bride and bridegroom is underpinned by the intention to create a deep community of life and conjugal love, which is exclusive and perpetuai, and is open to the wellbeing of the partners and to the procreation and education of children. At the wedding ceremony, both future partners must have the psychological capacity to give a valid consent with an understanding made up of a critical discernment of the nature of marriage, of their rights and possible duties and of inner freedom which allows the deliberate choice of the state of marriage and of the particular marriage which is being celebrated. Among the causes which are capable of bringing about the psychological incapacity to give valid matrimonial consent, «emotional immaturity» as it is called by psychiatry must be numbered.
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