“Let’s not. Church declarations of nullity have no civil effects and civil divorces have no theological effects. The terms are not interchangeable in any respect.”
Yet they are both “unmarriages”, one through divorce, the other through pretending they didn’t get married.
If one cannot have confidence that a sacrament can’t be undone if found inconvenient, why have them at all?
You misunderstand the point of anullment. If a marriage is anulled, it is because the sacrament was never conferred on the person. It is not being undone. It never happened in the first place. If the finding is that the sacrament was conferred, then no anullment is permitted. I agree that it appears that anullments are given to easily to people like the Kennedy's.