Sure. And the Catholic Church “annulled” his first marriage too. The one to whom he had kids born. So he could maryy some more.
Convenient, eh?
Marriage in the Church is not only a civil arrangement it is a Religious Sacrament. The Curch is only concerned with the Religious Sacrament as far as marriages are concerned. Any church wedding or civil wedding NOT approved by the Roman Church IS NOT a Religious Sacrament in the Catholic Church.
Please refer to the Baltimore Catechism for further explanation. Pgs 237-242
http://www.boston-catholic-journal.com/baltimore_catechism.pdf
Sure. And the Catholic Church “annulled” his first marriage too. The one to whom he had kids born. So he could maryy some more.
What do kids have to do with anything? Does the birth of children automatically and retroactively make all marriages legitimate or sacramental? Such a claim is absurd. And, if annulments are evil then what of divorce? Would you reject a man who had a divorce from his first wife and mother of his children and had then gone on to marry "some more"? If so you would have ruled out any support for Ronald Reagan as a candidate.
The annulment of Newt’s first marriage is not suprising; he married his former high school teacher at an age when he was unlikely to have the maturity to enter into a sacramental marriage.