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To: wideawake
I understand the concern: an oathbreaker taking an oath not to lie about the substance of the broken oath

It's not just that. There's a whole mini-industry that has grown up to assist people who "need" annulments - they can tell you what to say, how to say it, etc.

It's my conviction that there are very few married people, never mind married Catholics, who did not INTEND marriage on their wedding day. And yet, defective intent is annulling 60 000 marriages a year?

I think the bishops who preside over this would just as soon be done with it.

20 posted on 11/29/2013 10:10:25 AM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: Jim Noble
It's my conviction that there are very few married people, never mind married Catholics, who did not INTEND marriage on their wedding day.

That's an interesting conviction.

It is my conviction that a large number of married Catholics in the US have apparently had zero intention of following Church teaching on contraception when they said their vows.

Are you arguing that this glaring defect of intent is not common?

22 posted on 11/29/2013 10:17:07 AM PST by wideawake
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