Much as I can't stand that family, the Kennedys are far from the only ones who have gotten annulments after a bunch of kids. A friend of our family got one after she was married for 20 years and had three kids. It's basically pay your money at each step of the process and presto chango it's an annulment.
Teddy got his trumped up annullment but nephew Joseph Kennedy didn’t get his- his wife Sheila (who is episcopalian- hell hath no fury...) refused to let their twin sons be bastardized, and went after the Church and challenged it- she won. Wrote a book about it, too.
“Shattered Faith: A Woman’s Struggle to Stop the Catholic Church from Annulling Her Marriage”
No word on where Joe II and his former staffer/2d partner/”wife” Beth Kelly and 2d brood of kids now attend church.