So... only Catholics like the Kennedys who can pay huge amounts of to the Church for an “annulment” can get remarried.
Sorta like selling “indulgences.”
Not true.
Where do you get these faulty ideas?
Yeah crazy stuff. Remarried? Burn in hell. Abortion supporting liberal, salvation..
I believe this is true as I have talked to a Catholic priest about this. One can file to have a marriage annulled, giving particulars about the marriage and the “ex” has to also do this, then those papers go to a group whose job it is to determine if the marriage can be annulled. It is my belief, if one is famous/rich, the annulment will happen. Plain, ordinary people, may or may not get the annulment. Be married for many years with children and grandchildren, as the Kennedys, still get the annulment.
Why is it Nancy Pelosi is definitely for abortion, and is still totally accepted by the Catholic Church of which she is a member? I don't hear of her not being able to take the sacrament and certainly hasn't been kicked out of the Catholic church.
There are strict Catholic rules for common people but not for the elite and that makes the Catholic church guilty of hypocrisy - they say this is the rule but not really for some.
I am a Catholic.
You have been sadly misinformed, and I will happily explain why.
First of all, there are 30,000 - 60,000 annulments granted every year in the US alone (I'm looking at the span of the last 10 years), and very few, if any of them, are Kennedy-rich. So your claim is false on the face of it.
Second, In his book Annulments and the Catholic Church, canon lawyer Edward Peters states, "In the U.S. most tribunals charge anywhere from $200 to $1,000 for adjudicating a standard nullity case… These fees are typically payable over time, and there are means for having fees reduced or eliminated in cases of financial hardship (canon 1464)” (p. 7-8).
Peters goes on to explain that the expenses paid out of this fee are the cost of retrieval and printing of documents, the expense of personally locating and interviewing the respondent and witnesses, meetings with canon lawyers from both sides, esp. if the annulment is contested.
On the other hand, if the attempted marriage was indisputably null from the documents alone (e.g. proof that one of the parties was already validly married to somebody else and so the attempted marriage was actually bigamy), the petitioner would have an expedited and much less expensive process.
'Documentary cases' are handled very rapidly and for a much smaller fee, $25 or less being common.”
Compare that to the cost of a civil divorce!
Bishop Zubik of the Diocese of Pittsburgh has just this month announced that there will be no fees for annulments in his diocese. Can't get much cheaper than free.
Do you understand? I hope this was helpful.
“So... only Catholics like the Kennedys who can pay huge amounts of to the Church for an “annulment” can get remarried.
Sorta like selling “indulgences.”
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Does stupid hurt?
Millions of people who are not Kennedys have been granted annulments.
In my area, the Bishop has waived all fee’s for annulments. I know, I’m going through one now.