[JesusIsLord]

If it’s a false statement, it’s only so in the mind of the RC church. Unless you wish to redefine the English language, annul means, “To make or declare void or invalid”. When you “annul” a marriage, you are sayng it is void and invalid. Therefore, what I’ve said is true unless you wish to dance the voodoo, mumbo-jumbo, theological contortion BS of the RC church.

[Campion]

Obviously, a “church annulment” means what the church says it means, not what some goofball on the internet, who blasphemously signs his farrago of lies with the Name of the Author of Truth, says it means.

[maryz]

There is a difference between civil marriage and sacramental marriage. A church annulment means that the marriage was not sacramental; it has no effect on the legality of the civil marriage or the legitimacy of the children. I believe the civil divorce has to be final before you can petition for an annulment -- if you could get an annulment without a civil divorce and remarried, you would be guilty in the eyes of the state of bigamy.

BTW, I think in your first post here, you meant "palpable," not "palatable." ;-)