Does the Catholic Church consider it sinful for couples who aren't able to conceive to have sex?
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Marc's answer is correct. One might further add that Bible translations such as the New American Bible, which are respected by the Catholic Church, contain such verses as Mark 10: 7,8. "For this reason a man shall leave his Father and Mother, and the two shall become one flesh.....etc. This is a definition of marriage embedded within Jesus's teaching about divorce (which is sinful). Neither in this definition, nor in any other authoritative definition of marriage, are children even mentioned as being necessary, implying that the marriage is complete with or without children. Therefore, an inability to have children cannot be sinful.
Do not confuse religious cultural expectations with sinfulness. The two are not necessarily related.
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I believe this to be a valid question because there can be confusion here.
HUMANEA VITAE 11. The sexual activity, in which husband and wife are intimately and chastely united with one another, through which human life is transmitted, is, as the recent Council recalled, "noble and worthy.'' (11) It does not, moreover, cease to be legitimate even when, for reasons independent of their will, it is foreseen to be infertile. For its natural adaptation to the expression and strengthening of the union of husband and wife is not thereby suppressed. The fact is, as experience shows, that new life is not the result of each and every act of sexual intercourse. God has wisely ordered laws of nature and the incidence of fertility in such a way that successive births are already naturally spaced through the inherent operation of these laws. The Church, nevertheless, in urging men to the observance of the precepts of the natural law, which it interprets by its constant doctrine, teaches that each and every marital act must of necessity retain its intrinsic relationship to the procreation of human life. (12)
The Church's position is that the married couple be open to procreation, not that procreation is mandatory.
Sarah had complications. Elizabeth had complications. Even our Blessed Mother had a missing element required for procreation.
Nothing is impossible For God.
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