[dennisw]

"Sigh" yourself. My point is that in today's America, practically everybody gets the annulment he wants. Money no longer confers any advantage, OK?........

Come on! Annulments are still hard to get. John Kerry tried and failed to get one before he married fellow Catholic Teresa Heinz Ketchup. IOW he didn't have as much juice as the Kennedy clan.

[Romulus]

The fact that John Kerry's annulment was denied, with all the swell resources he has at his disposal, would seem to undercut your assertion (I won't dignify it by calling it an argument) that rick folks buy them in wholesale lots.

Annulments are still hard to get.

Are you representing yourself as an authority on Catholic marriage tribunals? Do you know how many annulments are granted every year? How many were granted 40 years ago? Do you know what percentage this represents of the total applied for? Do you know what percentage of annulments world-wide, are granted to Americans? You are out of your depth here, dealing in uninformed hearsay. If you want information about the Catholic annulment prcedure in America today, there are plenty of ways to find out, most of which are more reliable than cocktail party gossip.

[sinkspur]

Annulments are still hard to get. John Kerry tried and failed to get one before he married fellow Catholic Teresa Heinz Ketchup

Annulments are NOT hard to get. They take time, but over 50,000 annulments were granted in the US last year.

And, I've read reliable accounts that Kerry DID, in fact, get an annulment from his first wife.

Money is not a determining factor in who gets an annulment. It never has been.

[NeoCaveman]

Come on! Annulments are still hard to get.

Sadly, this isn't the case. Now adays the Church (at least in the U.S.) pretty much assumes the both spouses are crossing their fingers when they say "I do"