Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: SuziQ

Yeah, and when the wife doesn't want her marriage to be annulled, she just gets rough shod over by the RCC so the high profile Kennedy can go and marry someone else.


95 posted on 05/18/2006 1:19:22 PM PDT by Full Court (Jesus saves)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 93 | View Replies ]


To: Full Court
when the wife doesn't want her marriage to be annulled

Strictly speaking, "what somebody wants" isn't supposed to matter in a marriage case. If one party to the marriage asks for the marriage to be examined to determine whether it's valid, then the examination has to be done. "What I want to happen" is irrelevant to the question of whether valid consent was given in the first place.

103 posted on 05/18/2006 1:52:17 PM PDT by Campion ("I am so tired of you, liberal church in America" -- Mother Angelica, 1993)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 95 | View Replies ]

To: Full Court
Yeah, and when the wife doesn't want her marriage to be annulled, she just gets rough shod over by the RCC so the high profile Kennedy can go and marry someone else.

If the Sacrament is INVALID, it's invalid for BOTH participants. I never understood why she was so upset about it anyway. She was divorced, which is OK in her Church, and since she wasn't Catholic, the annulment had no effect on her ability to marry again. I guess she was just mad at Joseph Kennedy, and probably rightly so, but the annulment wasn't affecting her or their kids, if they had any, legally, so what was her argument against it? It always seemed to me as just a way to bash the Kennedys and sell her book.

As for him re-marrying, he is free to do so, if his first marriage is annuled. One can only hope that he mended his unfaithful ways. That's between him and his Confessor, and if his second marriage is working out, it just may be. Thank God for repentance.

115 posted on 05/18/2006 3:06:35 PM PDT by SuziQ
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 95 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson