Resumen de Lack of faith and its effect on the validity of the matrimonial consent of the baptized
In this article, the author examines the lack of faith and its effects on the validity of the matrimonial consent of the baptized. The question can be presented as follows: If one lacks faith in marriage as a sacrament, how can he or she celebrate the sacrament validly? He starts first by recalling certain principles of the papal magisterium which then have been elaborated in Rotal jurisprudence. The question as such is not new: it was also alluded to in certain propositions discussed by the International Theological Commission in their meeting of 1977. The available information on the two synods on the family (2014 and 2015) seems to indicate that there is a renewed or ongoing interest in the theme.
