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[Chauncey Gardiner]

These guys pi$$ed off Henry VIII so badly over his marital status that he started his own Church with his rules.

[PGalt]

Social Justice Warrior, Jesuit Frank has some 3-letter agencies too? What’s wrong with this world? Next thing you know, they’ll be using words/phrases to hide intentions. Wait, what...? Sheesh.

[NativeSon]

Francis? Isn’t that the guy that says homos can get married, the Church must accept everyone and all religions are true/equal and the western civilization is the boogey man?

[TangledUpInBlue]

Hmmm, kinda like how I got dumber 30 years after taking the SATs...….

[kidd]

If the lack of a living and explicit faith is a basis for nullification of a marriage, then
a requirement for marriage in the Catholic church should be to possess a living and explicit faith

If the Church allows this new “get out” rule without requiring the same “get in” rule, then a Catholic marriage becomes nearly worthless.

If the Catholic church requires this new “get in” rule, then Catholic marriages will have greater meaning, but will be rare.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Once they convince themselves that they can hop into the DeLorean, go back 20, 30 years to the start of a marriage AND read peoples’ minds to discern all of their thoughts and motives at that time and determine that a marriage was never really valid in the first place, all bets are off.

Shoulda stuck to Matthew 5:32

[utahagen]

So many times a day I read something about the Church that distresses me that I’ve taken to saying to the Blessed Mother the briefest prayer to her that I know: “O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.”

[mountainfolk]

"Loophole" is the word that best describes what Catholic annulment means to Catholic me. All of this latest Jesuit mental gymnastics is for the purpose of giving an out to a spouse in a valid Catholic marriage who now wants a divorce and also wants to remarry in the Church. When one spouse objects to this arrangement and claims that their children would be bastards if the original marriage was wiped out that is not a concern for the Church hierarchy. I have observed this from a family experience and the use of annulment is not uncommon as of the new enlightenment that the Church now accepts. This has brought bitter resentment to the exploited spouses. Divorce is a more honest action and that can be acceptable whereas an annulment for grounds other than a valid and truthful reason is a pervision and a LOOPHOLE.