Natural marriage

Natural marriage is the realize given in Catholic canon law to the covenant "by which a man and a woman creation between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its sort to the usefulness of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring", and is distinguished from a sacramental or Christian marriage, in which the two parties involved are baptized.

Transformation into sacramental marriage

The marriage that a non-baptized person, of whatever religion or belief, contracts, even with a baptized person, is a non-sacramental natural marriage. However, if the non-baptized person or persons are later baptized, the existing marriage automatically becomes sacramental and no longer merely natural.