Foreword by Raymond Cardinal Burke 9
Foreword to the First Edition by Urbano Navarrete, S.J 15
Acknowledgments 21
I. Introduction and Preliminary Considerations 23
The norm of the Italian Episcopal Conference 23
An aid to pastors and other priests who encounter spouses in difficulty 27
Preliminary general observations concerning the consultation interview for the purpose of determining a possible ground of nullity of a marriage 29
Factors that vitiate freedom of consent 32
Incapacity of the person 32
Voluntary defects of consent 32
II. Violation of Freedom of Consent 35
Elements of substantive law 35
Guide for the counselor 38
Examples 41
III. Error of Fact: About the Person, about a Personal Quality Directly and Principally Intended, or about a Personal Quality That Is the Object of Deceit 47
Elements of substantive law 48
The 1917 Code and the problems of interpreting it 48
The 1983 Code 56
Guide for the counselor 61
Error concerning a personal quality directly and principally intended 62
Deceitfully induced error about a quality 65
Examples 67
IV. Simulation of Consent: General Notions 77
Elements of substantive law 78
V. Exclusion of Children 89
Elements of substantive law 89
Guide for the counselor 94
Examples 97
VI. Exclusion of the Indissolubility of the Bond 105
Elements of substantive law 105
Guide for the counselor 113
Examples 116
VII. Exclusion of Fidelity 123
Elements law; Guide counselor; Examples
VIII. Total Simulation of Consent 139
Elements law; Guide counselor; Examples
IX. The Impediment of Impotence 155
Elements of substantive law 155
The concept of matrimonial impediment 155
Copulative impotence 159
Guide for the counselor 166
Examples 168
X. Inability to Consent (Canon 1095,1° and 2°) 179
Elements law; Guide counselor; Examples
XI. Incapacity to Assume the Essential Obligations of Marriage (Canon1095, 3°) 207
Elements law; Guide counselor; Examples
XII. Conditional Consent 233
Elements law; Guide counselor; Examples
XIII. Convalidation of an Invalid Marriage 263
Elements law; Guide counselor; Examples
XIV. Pontifical Dispensation from a Ratified and Nonconsummated Marriage 287
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