“That a spouse remains for an extended period in hopes of repairing the fault and becomes convinced they can not is none of your business, and certainly not yours to judge.”
Who’s judging (politicians don’t count)? They get divorced civilly, and the church does whatever it wants to recognize the results of the “unmarriage”
“No, it’s Protestant duplicity when one keeps insisting an annulment is the same thing as a divorce when it manifestly is not. “
An annulment and a divorce have the same result - a church recognized dissolution of marriage. Catholics pretend it never happened, Protestants just divorce. It’s the same result - you disagree that it is the same result, the very definition of duplicity - an argument I attempted to avoid with Catholics by pointing out it’s simply “unmarriage”.
So do murder and natural death: are they the same?