[ClearCase_guy]

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).

[american colleen]

To be fair, I don't know anyone who hasn't gotten an annulment who has applied for one in the Archdiocese of Boston.

[jocon307]

"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.

[Aquinasfan]

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.