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HenryV
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How many wives/husbands can you marry and later have the marriage anulled and still consider yourself a Catholic.
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jrabs
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Huh?
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HenryV
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Huh?
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estesbob
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None.
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Smber2c
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Well, I’m with the above people wondering what the exact question is…but I guess any number. An annulment isn’t a sin.
And for things that are a sin, say stealing…one can still be a Catholic while struggling with this vice of stealing assuming they believe the church’s teachings and are seeking to break the habit. But again, an annulment isn’t a sin.
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rpp
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I believe this question would be similar to “How many sets of clothes can you ruin before you are not permitted to wear clothes anymore?” Or “How many times can you try to start a business before you are not permitted to use money anymore?”
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quasimodo
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If a marriage is valid, you can only be married once. If you get a civil divorce and attempt a new marriage, you may be committing serial monogamy but you are almost certainly committing adultry (ie. in a state of mortal sin). Because the church is a hospital for sinners and not a shrine for saints, you can still consider yourself Catholic and attend Mass, but you may not participate in the sacraments until the situation is regularized.
If an earlier marriage is invalid and a declaration of nullity is granted, then the next marriage must be evaluated as before. And so on. But you may not be granted the right to marry in the church until you have your head examined and fixed.
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mapleoak
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How many times can one buy a product or piece of merchandise and return it for being defective before they are stuck with it?
If a marriage is declared null (not to be confused with nullified, which is a contradiction), then there was no true husband/wife involved. So to answer how many husbands or wives could one have? None.
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HenryV
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Yes I know that.
I just tried to make fun of it. Because I don’t like the anullation apparatus that has come to dominate the modern Church and several anullations given on dubious grounds.
In medicine a diagnosis you give when all else are excluded is called a “dustbin-diagnosis”. I think there are “dust-bin” canons that can be used on very loose grounds.
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mapleoak
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Yes, it is a sad reflection on the general state of marital reverence or lack thereof in our present society. It almost makes a couple wonder if they should apply for an annulment just to prove to themselves that they ARE in fact married.
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Dale_B
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I used to think the annulment process was too easy too, but when i started to look into it and read what would make a marriage invalid I found that its not that its so easy to get an annulment but that so many couples dont go into marriage fully informed 
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LJN21
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Yeah I’ve heard that too.I used to think the annulment process was too easy too, but when i started to look into it and read what would make a marriage invalid I found that its not that its so easy to get an annulment but that so many couples dont go into marriage fully informed
I don’t think anyone get married fully informed other wise the wouldn’t get married
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