Francis is expanding the contours of annulment. The decision by the local Church constitutes the annulment.
So all divorces become annulments, if asked for?
Francis is expanding the contours of annulment. The decision by the local Church constitutes the annulment.
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I was raised Catholic in the 40s/50s/ and got away from it when I went in the Navy.
I compounded my ‘leaving’ by marrying out of the Faith in 1962 and got a divorce in 2004.
Shortly after the Divorce I was talking to a Priest and inquired as to coming back into the fold and what it would entail.
He suggested bringing the ex and he would counsel us - I told him that wasn’t going to happen.
He took my confession (I basically said give me ‘one of everything’ - for brevity sake).
He ‘absolved’ me and served Communion the following Sunday - he nodded to me so the fact I was recognized at the altar and had awaited HIM to serve me - (Old standards are hard to forget) led me to believe everything was ‘ok’.
I was surprised when I heard the Pope’s remarks the other day, I though that had been resolved.
The Priest in question died about a year later. He had a ‘social’ disease and possibly taking me back in the ‘fold’ was an act of defiance on his part????
FWIW, I did NOT like the ‘New’ church - any part of it, so I went back to ‘self administering’ and in essence am probably a ‘better’ Catholic than the pols that claim it and continue to back EVERYTHING that we were taught was against the religion back in the 50s.