What is the definitiveTeaching or Position of the Catholic Church on Wedding a Pregnant Bride in Church?

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The Sacrament of “Holy Matrimony” is it still holy today when the Bride has to become pregnant before wedding in the Church? Is the Church not being scandalized?

Answers and Views:

Answer by Ernestine
You cannot scandalize the church it is a building, and the bride if she is pregnant or not, is a creation of God.

Anything Created is an Extension of its Creator.

So if God is holy it means that the bride and the baby are holy too.

Answer by politically correct
Wasn’t the Virgin Mary pregnant before she got married? And she was still allowed to get married?

And if she’s pregnant, and wanting to get married, that’s not the worst sin in the world. It’s not like she murdered anyone.

Answer by Eibhlinn Savage
she can marry in Church. By marrying she is doing the right thing, coming back into the arms of the Mother Church. We all commit sins and make mistakes. The Church accepts that. the Catholic Church says that no sin is too great to be forgiven. The bride will probably be advised to go to confession before the wedding, but she does not absolutely have to.

Answer by Lady of the Lake
the catholic church practically invented the shot gun wedding.
until only 50 years ago when young women got pregnant they were generally forced by their family to marry the man who got them pregnant. there was NOTHING more scandalous and immoral than an unmarried mother. it was simply not acceptable in society. so the church would get these women married quickly and then they would have a “premature” baby, people would gossip about whether the baby was or was not in fact conceived after the marriage but overall the woman’s reputation was saved and was still accepted in society.

so the church is happy to wed pregnant mothers, they think that is better than kids being brought into the world without nuclear families.

Answer by Misty
A pregnant bride can still be married in the Church. It is certainly better than remaining unmarried and continuing in sin.

Answer by sparki777
There isn’t a “definitive teaching” because the Church takes each individual AS an individual. Everything is done on a case-by-case basis in circumstances such as these, where a person’s struggle with sin is made obvious (by the pregnancy), but the Sacraments are desired and certainly needed.

In *general* terms — a pregnant bride-to-be who receives the Sacrament of Reconciliation and sincerely pledges to stay abstinent until she is married can be married in the Church with a full wedding. Depending on how far along she is in her pregnancy, a priest may or may not recommend a small, private wedding versus a showy, “princess” affair.

We are all sinners. The best thing to do is to keep your eyes on your own paper and pray that the bride and groom in such a situation receive the full measure of mercy and grace from Christ, and the full measure of mercy from the Church so that they can live out an authentically Christian life from this day forward.

Answer by imacatholic2
The couple being married is better for:
+ The couple
+ The baby
+ The Church community

The couple celebrating the sacrament of Matrimony is much more important than sparing the delicate feelings of a few.

With love in Christ.