[wideawake]

since Catholic divorce, aka annulment is so readily available, there's no incentive to leave for that reason.

Are they?

There are about 2.1mm divorces each year in the US. About 25% of Americans are Catholic. There are 30,000 annulments granted by the Catholic Church per year, of which the vast majority are granted to Catholics who did not marry in the Church.

So that's an annulment runrate of about 6% of US divorces - and when it comes to Catholics who married another Catholic in a Catholic ceremony getting annulments, it's more like 0.6%.

All a practicing Catholic has to do is get the church to annul the marriage

As the numbers show, that's far more difficult than you are representing.

what about the not bowing down to graven images?

When do we do that, now?

[nascarnation]

You’re using facts and statistics.
Is that allowed on FR any more?

[Mears]

“All a practicing Catholic has to do is get the church to annul the marriage

As the numbers show, that’s far more difficult than you are representing.”

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Maybe it’s regional. I know 2 Catholics who have had 2 annulments each.

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