Grounds for Marriage Annulment in the Catholic Church

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Well that comes with marrying a nonCatholic.

Not being able be admonished with reception of His Eucharist.

But, yes! I totally sympathize with that spirit. Those who want to hold you accountable, but refuse to be corrected themselves.
 
Btw, sorry to assume you were male. Julian is masculine , that all.
 
There are specific grounds for excommunication—this isn’t on the list. Nor can a parish priest excommunicate anyone.
 
Maybe ex-communication is on the extreme side.

At minimum, an admonishment not to receive while embracing the sinful action.
 
But it’s hard to determine sin with child support absent a court order. He’d have just said, “ you should come home.”
 
JulianN said:
And couples who are not choosing the Church for the right reasons are motivated to just say whatever is necessary to get the wedding that makes Mom happy.
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When my daughter married outside the Church I was upset. When I said she could have married her non-Catholic husband in exactly the ceremony she had with a dispensation from form she replied, “I would have had to lie to the priest and tell him I was going to remain Catholic and have my children baptized. Since we had already decided not to have our children baptized and I have not practiced my religion in many years there is no way I was lying to a priest like that, not even to make you happy.”

As unhappy as I was about the whole thing I was happy she didn’t use the Church. That my grandsons are not baptized saddens me every day. And I’ve had to resist the temptation…
 
Yes—that would be really hard. But kudos to your daughter for not being hypocritical. Perhaps someday…
 
This is too our shame!

“Can it be that there is no man among you wise enough to decide between members of the brotherhood”
 
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Well, it is what it is. If the Church got bogged down in all the matters now handled in civil law, the priests wouldn’t have tome to celebrate the sacraments.
 
Is that what you would say to St Paul?

Maybe you should trust the instructions of the Apostle, that there would be a reduced number of issues between believers. That the Spirit would grow among us.
 
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Maybe you should trust the instructions of the Apostle, that there would be a reduced number of issues between believers. That
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I’m going to guess that wouldn’t have gotten my children any child support though.
 
Failure though it might be, I was not going to have my children go hungry while waiting for my parish to support them. I work for the Church—that wouldn’t have happened. I know this.
 
This is to our shame.

It doesn’t justify your general position.

It only shows a lack of true religion among us.

But in the end, yes you have to do what you must to feed your children. I’m not saying that was wrong.
 
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I felt blessed because when my mother divorced her husband back in the day of the 70’s she was under the impression that remarriage would mean she could not Commune ever again in the Catholic Church.

I don’t think the annulment process was up and running then. So we’ve come quite aways with minstering to the divorced and remarried.
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Oh, yes, marriages were examined back in the 70s and much earlier than that. The problem was that few people knew about it.

I attended a marriage in the 60s that I didn’t think should be happening. I was a teenager and even then I thought there was something “off” about the whole thing. Several years later they divorced and one petitioned for a decree of nullity. I presume it was him since he has since remarried in the Church and she hasn’t remarried at all. I have also spoken to one of the witnesses in the process. He was a close friend and he had always thought the marriage was a mistake, only done because she was pregnant. I have absolutely no idea what grounds they used but I would suspect “lack of free consent”.
 
Being able to seek an annulment while still married would only do harm, never good. After all, even in marriages that would be declared invalid, a couple is not sinning at all by living as husband and wife after being supposedly married. And if people that would otherwise stay together, it only harms the children in the end, if there are any. Also, it wouldnt convince anyone to stay together anyway. Plenty of people assume they have a valid marriage and leave anyway. They simply don’t care, for whatever reason. Being admonished by a priest to return to their spouses would only drive people like that completely away from the church for good.
 
That is catering to the people who don’t care.

We should be concerned with the sincere people. And I am told by people involved in the process, that petitioners are most always sincere. Looking to do the right thing. That’s who we should be looking out for.
 
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