Christians Refusing God's Call

For most of Christian history, the legal age of marriage was 12 for both men and women.

By refusing to allow marriage until age 18, Christians are artificially forcing ALL men and women to be celibate. What if God is actually calling 12 and 14 year olds to be married? 

He did that for dozens of Catholic saints.

Did He stop calling teenagers into sainthood via marriage?

I strongly doubt that He did.

So, we are forcing millions of teens into the equivalent of convents and monasteries when they are not called to that. That cannot be good.

Now you might say, "Perhaps people were ready for marriage back then so it was allowed, but now by and large we are not by then." Perhaps. 

But that's a failure of Christian catechesis, not a failure of God's call. So... why isn't that a focus for bishops and priests? Why aren't Christians working on getting the age of marriage lowered back down to 12? 

If  "the future of the world and of the Church passes through the family" (Familiaris Consortio, #75), why isn't the Church trying to re-establish, in every way possible, the earliest and longest-lasting marriage traditions of the Church? Why isn't the entire Christian world pushing for marriage at age 12?  Arguing that we are no longer eligible for the grace of marriage until we turn 18 is not only a violation of canon law (which currently dictates 14 for women and 16 for men) but it also implies that the path to eternal holiness via the timeless grace of the sacraments is tied to a specific time period. Marriage used to make you holy in the past, but apparently, now, not so much. God stopped handing out grace to 12-year olds via marriage because... well.... reasons. 

And, apparently, God just stopped calling 12-year olds to holiness via marriage within the last century, because that's when the governments of the world were all apparently inspired by God to raise the marriage age to 18... yet God only told the Pope to raise the marriage age to 14 (for women) and 16 (for men), so.... that's confusing. 

 Canon 1083 sets it as 16 years of age for boys and 14 years of age for girls, a standard most recently revised in 1917, where 1917 Code of Canon Law Canon 1067 changed a longstanding law allowing both sexes to marry at twelve years of age. The Church had an opportunity to reconsider marriage age when preparing the 1983 Code of Canon Law, but chose to retain the 1917 standards and add only a provision allowing Bishops to raise local marriage age, as appropriate to regional customs. (link)

Likewise, God primarily inspired Western governments to do this in the late 1800s (age of consent in every US state was either 10 or 12 in 1885, except Delaware, where it was 7).  But, He waited over thirty years to inspire the Catholic Church (Code of Canon Law, 1918) and apparently, He still hasn't begun inspiring non-western governments, like the Islamic governments of Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Or, at least, they haven't been responding. Of course, if their delay is due to their not responding to God's call, then that doesn't speak well to the Catholic Church's decision to wait until 1918 to revise canon law, and it also doesn't speak to the disparity between canon law (14/16 age limit) and secular governments (18 age limit). 

If canon law is the more correct inspiration of God, then why aren't priests and bishops, why isn't the Catholic Church as a whole, working strenously to reduce the age of marriage to 14 and 16 for women and men, respectively? If marriage really, really is the bedrock of secular society and the Church, if marriage and family truly is the future of the Church, then isn't lowering the age of marriage to match that of canon law the single most important fight the Church could wage on behalf of Christ's body?

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Similarly, when we see teens, or any unmarried couple, engaging in sex, engaging in child-creation, outside of marriage, is that because they are trying to respond to God's call to holiness through marriage, but society won't let them, and the Church is deliberately refusing to help them answer this call? Perhaps the crisis of the family is the crisis that the world's cultures, including the Church, no longer prepares 12-year olds to marry.