On another website here, it is stated that Kerry married his first wife on her Long Island Estate which begs the question, "Was that a catholic wedding?"
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Kerry's wives have been incredibly rich women. When Kerry married his first wife, Julia Stimson Thorne, on her family's 200-acre Long Island estate, she wore a wedding dress first worn by a direct ancestor so well-connected that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton attended her nuptials
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Reason I veered off into this is that if the second wife's remarriage was in a catholic church, that would tend to settle the annulment question as she couldn't have gotten remarried without one. I haven't found anything on that.
Why did I post this and the previous newspaper article? To get it into FR archives.
Kerry and Thorne were separated in 1982 and divorced July 25, 1988. "After 14 years as a political wife," she wrote in A Change of Heart, her book about depression, "I associated politics only with anger, fear and loneliness." The marriage was formally annulled by the Roman Catholic Church in 1997. Thorne later married an architect named Richard Charlesworth, and moved to Bozeman, Montana, where she became active in local environmental groups such as the Greater Yellowstone Coalition.
Kerry and Teresa Simões-Ferreira Heinz, the widow of Pennsylvania Senator H. John Heinz III and formerly a United Nations translator, met at the UN-sponsored Earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro in 1992. They married on May 26, 1995 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Kerry has three stepsons with Teresa: John Heinz Jr., André Heinz and Christopher Heinz (b. ~1973).
So, according to the info, the second marriage took place in 1995, prior to formal annulment in 1997, which means Kerry was living in sin then, and perhaps even now. This will also explain why the second marriage did not take place in a church, probably because it was NOT a valid marriage then, or even now.
If that is the case, the Kerry's touting of his "catholic status" would be a major blow to his credibility, so is that of his bishop who should own up about Kerry's true status.
I am pinging colleen because she is in Boston and perhaps could get more info on this.