To: Aquinasfan
Actually, I don't know Ted's situation. I do know that Joseph P. Kennedy got an annulment (maybe 10 years ago) after a long marriage with 2 children. I forget his "reason" but it seemed totally trivial to me -- yet he got the annulment with no trouble (Cardinal Law assisting).
26 posted on
09/22/2003 12:49:51 PM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
(France delenda est)
To: ClearCase_guy
To be fair, I don't know anyone who hasn't gotten an annulment who has applied for one in the Archdiocese of Boston.
To: ClearCase_guy
"I do know that Joseph P. Kennedy got an annulment (maybe 10 years ago) after a long marriage with 2 children."
Is this the guy who got killed skiing? If so, his ex-wife was fighting the annulment tooth & nail, and was prepared to go "all the way to Rome", or so I heard. And she wasn't even a Catholic, but an Episcopalian. I guess she thought the ex-hubby was just full of cr*p. But, of course, it was all moot when he died.
41 posted on
09/22/2003 2:35:12 PM PDT by
jocon307
(Where is Chat? And how did I get here?)
To: ClearCase_guy
I forget his "reason" but it seemed totally trivial to me -- yet he got the annulment with no trouble (Cardinal Law assisting). I can't argue the facts of this case. But in principle, abuses can occur in the annulment process. The Church doesn't regard the findings of a tribunal to be infallible. However, a good practicing Catholic is obligated to abide by the decision of a tribunal, and the Church teaches that a person who abides by an incorrect finding of a tribunal will not be considered to have sinned.
57 posted on
09/23/2003 4:47:38 AM PDT by
Aquinasfan
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