Pope calls for same sex 'civil union' laws.

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Does it even refer to Argentine legalese? Or this this statement of universal applicability? Was this a last-ditch attempt to avoid gay marriage that was going to pass otherwise, or something that should be seen as a positive good? How should Catholics reconcile this statement with the Church's teaching that homosexual unions are disordered and the faithful should not partake in them? Is this meant to be a statement that the government should not enforce restrictions against homosexuality despite it being immoral? To each of these questions, I can think of many possible speculations, but without any context whatsoever it is essentially impossible to venture any serious answer.

They ashamed of themselves if they ever took that garbage seriously, as it is so clearly antithetical to the basic tenets of Christianity and just common decency, that even the pope thinks so

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For a marriage to be valid, there are other requirements in addition to sex, but yes, having sex (normal intercourse and it also has to be consensual) is one of the requirements. While marriage is indissoluble once validly ratified and consummated, it can actually be dissolved still after a wedding but prior to consummation. It has not yet been completed at that point. Although, the couple must also be open to children, they do not necessarily need to have born them for the marriage to be valid.

As for who checks up on it, in typically no one. Practically I do not see how they could in general unless some controversy arose, such as one party claiming the marriage is not valid for one reason or another, or if some impediment is publicly known.

I suspect this is using some made up definition of "normal" (devised by celebate men who have no idea what marriage and sex are like) and not by kind of statistical data gathering.