“An annulment is a declaration that a marriage was null from the beginning.”
Yeah,right.
Annulments are boondoggles,no more,no less.
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Annulments are for people like Ted Kennedy.
One of the most high-profile people to have received an annulment from the Catholic Church was Sen. Edward Kennedy. The Massachusetts Democrat received the annulment from his first wife, Joan, in the 1990s after he reportedly admitted that he wasn’t being honest when he vowed he would be faithful. The couple, who married in 1958, divorced in 1983.
The annulment didn’t become public knowledge until Kennedy took Communion at the funeral of his mother, Rose Kennedy, in 1995, according to Kennedy biographer Adam Clymer.
News that Kennedy’s second marriage to Victoria Reggie in a civil ceremony in 1992 was blessed by the church set off another ripple of questions and criticism about whether annulments were for the privileged or easily obtained by anyone, even people at odds with their Catholic faith, as some viewed Kennedy.