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To: Mrs. Don-o
... since Jesus explicitly called marriage-after-divorce "adultery," ---- three times --- I wouldn't attend a straight "second marriage" either.

How about you?

How about marriage after a Catholic "annulment?" Would you attend? What if it was a former marriage of many year with multiple children as a result?

134 posted on 04/25/2018 7:18:18 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: fwdude
If there was an annulment, that indicates a finding, as the result of a formal inquiry, that the first union was not a marriage in the sacramental (and lifelong binding) sense. It was a civil marriage only.

To repeat: the annulment wouldn't mean they were never married in any sense at all. They were probably joined in the eyes of the law. But not in the eyes of the Church, and that because of some defect at the beginning that would have annulled the formation of lifelong bond.

Yes, I'd attend the "second marriage" if the Church had determined it was actually the first and only marriage with a lifelong sacramental bond.

141 posted on 04/25/2018 7:50:18 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Let us commend ourselves, and one another, and our whole life, unto Christ Our God.")
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