Again you are woefully uninformed on the church..after a very thorough investigation, an annulment is granted when it can be shown that for a small variety of reasons, the marriage was not valid in the first place....pretty involved procedure.
So THAT's what happened to Joseph!
His 'marriage' was NEVER consumated; so he took off!
Scripture makes no such exemption. The only exemption allowed is for adultery and that is not the result of an *invalid* marriage.
The RCC making that exemption is just an excuse.
It allows people to break their marriage vows. Divorce by any other name is still divorce.
Mark 10:2-12 2 And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” 3 He answered them, “What did Moses command you?”
4 They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” 5 And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. 6 But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ 7 ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. 9 What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
10 And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. 11 And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, 12 and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
Relabeling divorce so people can justify their sin does nobody any favors whether it is church sanctions it or not.
Matthew 5:17-19 17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. 19 Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Quite the indictment of the Catholic church by Jesus Himself.