Why did you not send the mods a freepmail?
bttt
Sometimes you can find them by doing a search of cached pages on Google if they have been pulled form the host site....
The annulment question was a Catholic Church legal formality. This practice is extremely common, and has nothing to do with the legality of either marriage.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
They could have had their "marriage" blessed afterward. I believe their is a 1-year waiting period.
check this thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1110539/posts
he annulled his first marriage, even though he had children from that marriage? i know people (mainly wealthy men) do this, i just don't understand how the Catholic Church allows it...
Anyone who supports Bush will stay as far away as possible from the Kerry 1st wife/marriage story. It will do irrepairable damage to Bush if this is brought up...tick off the squishy middle, solidify Kerry's base.
It's bad form.
(In case you doubt me, think about how successful the democrats were when they tried to bring up Jane Wyman/divorce/2nd marriage/etc. That really worked wonders.
Give me some clues on the title and I'll look it up and help you out. I have a subscription and I can supply you with the url as well.
What you read IS correct. I had read it also and can't recall the title - even with searching around.
E-mail me privately and I'll help you out.
Catholic or not, annulments are CRAZY - EIGHTEEN years of marriage and THEN to have married the *itch before he was divorced, for more money of course is a problem for most of us.
This may be my fault. Here's an old Boston Globe article. Excerpted and follow link for the full version--->>>
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22already+at+the+center+of+a+fierce+public%22&hl=en&lr=&selm=01bc45fd%24a4bb1de0%2463755acf%40default&rnum=1
Kerry's former wife, Julia Thorne, says she received what she considers a coldly worded letter in November from a church official notifying her that the senator was seeking an annulment of their 12-year marriage, which ended in 1984.
Thorne, unlike Sheila Rauch Kennedy who is battling a similar request from Congressman Kennedy, says she will not contest the annulment request. She says she still supports Kerry politically and is glad he is happy in his new marriage to Teresa Heinz, the Heinz food fortune heiress.
But Thorne, a published author on issues of emotional experience, does not hold back her contempt for the way the Roman Catholic Church takes a marriage off the books.
Thorne, who married Kerry in 1970, said the church's approach to the issue was cold-hearted and showed no respect or recognition of her 12-year union with the senator.
"It was disrespectful to me, it was aloof to any emotional issues, and devoid of any sense of the humanity of what this means to me and the children,"
Don't waste your time.
We probably don't even need any more dirt.
Is this another vanity?
I tried to read the original at the source and could not find it either.
Its Only relevant to Roman Catholics...other catholics could care less...