[Buckeye McFrog]

If marriages cannot be dissolved by the Church (and they can’t), then everyone who divorces and remarries is in a state of adultery.

So they invent the legal fiction of an annulment and claim that your marriage never really existed, which lets them off the hook.

Adultery is a mortal sin, and you can’t receive Communion in a state of mortal sin—because you then commit the additional sin of sacrilege.

So Nancy Pelosi can repeatedly vote for legalized abortion over a long political career, yet she has not committed a mortal sin?

[Claud]

Legal fiction?

If you enter into a contract with a person who intended to deceive you, is that contract still valid? The proper minister of the sacrament of marriage are the man and woman themselves. If one of the spouses entered into it fraudulently or ignorantly, no valid sacrament was effected despite all the externals, kinda like if you go into the confessional and lie to the priest.

The principle behind annulment is sound. Now if you are going to complain that bishops watered down those principles to get Catholic divorce through the back door, that’s a different story.

[Claud]

In my opinion, with the caveat that I ain’t God so I don’t know absolutely her soul? Pelosi is arguably in the state of hardened and unrepentant mortal sin. If I were her bishop she’da been excommunicated with bell book and candle, much less refused Communion. Like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnxJyEF4qLE