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To: marajade
Come now, you don't really believe that the Kennedy's typify practicing Catholics do you?

In fact, faithful Catholics have one of the lowest divorce rates in the country. From Divorce Statistics Collection:

In truth, the National Institute for Healthcare Research says weekly churchgoers throughout the U.S. are less apt to divorce than people who claim "no religion" and those who attend religious services less than once a week. Devout Catholics have especially low divorce rates - apparently because Catholic parishes often take the responsibility of marriage preparation and enrichment more seriously than Protestant churches do. Thus, one of the reasons for the relatively low divorce rates in the Northeast and Midwest is because these regions tend to have a higher concentration of Catholics than do other geographic areas.

182 posted on 12/10/2001 3:46:42 PM PST by independentmind
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To: independentmind
I don't know if its typical or not. I'm just saying that if you are a rich successful political like the Kennedy's buying annulments come easy to the Catholic Church. Personally I think the Church has corrupted itself.
195 posted on 12/10/2001 4:13:31 PM PST by marajade
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