""the priest was fully aware of their situation from the outset and treated them with respect throughout""
""The Church teaches that Christian marriage, as a sacrament, requires the fulfilment of essential canonical conditions for its validity and licitness.""
""It is not merely a ceremony or the fulfilment of administrative requirements, but rather it is necessary that the contracting parties be legally capable of entering into marriage, that there be no canonical impediment, and that they give true consent, that is, that they wish to enter into marriage according to what the Church understands and teaches, with rectitude of intention and good faith.""
A Catholic wedding on 28 January in Corrientes saw trans activist Solange Ayala marry her trans husband Isaías at Our Lady of Pompeii parish. The priest celebrated the marriage after consulting Archbishop José Adolfo Larregain, who concluded that the couple met the essential requirements for a valid Catholic marriage based on their biological sex. Ayala reported that the priest knew their situation from the start and treated them with respect. The parish stated that Christian marriage requires legal capacity, absence of canonical impediment, and true consent given with rectitude of intention and good faith.
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