[Campion]

But annulments aren't so great because they make b@stards out of the children cuz they say the marriage never was.

That's completely untrue. Canon law has always recognized children of a putative marriage entered into in good faith as legitimate. In the current (1983) CIC, the concepts of "legitimacy" and "illegitimacy" don't even exist.

[Great Caesars Ghost]

Thank you for clearing that up for me. I read a question from a woman very upset about that and afraid to get one on the Catholic Community Forum a while back.

I suppose they can also go to a liberal Catholic church and take communion anyway too, but I don't think that's the kind of ideal we're going for in this discussion.