Is Canon 1099 an Easy Annulment?

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The way I understand canon 1099, is that if someone consented to marriage only on the condition that they could always get a civil divorce and dissolve the marriage for what they consider a just reason, the Sacrament was never confered because of this impediment.

Based on this would it not be very easy, for a spouse who truly wants to be released from the marriage, to confess this and receive an annulment decree from the Trubunal?
 
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A person who did the proper Catholic marriage preparation would know better than that.
 
I dont remember (though I could be mistaken) being instructed about ANY impediments to the Marriage!

I realize you are probably meaning instructed that marriage is indissoluble. And for this, i have no recolection either!

This is pretty crazy! Am I wrong? Does anyone have some references to the preparation material that instructs this?
 
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A person who did the proper Catholic marriage preparation would know better than that.
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In the real world, I think there are many, many Catholics who believe cheated dissolves a marriage. If they cannot “get” an annulment for that, why would they not appeal with canon 1099?
 
I don’t think there is any such thing as an easy annulment.
 
Marriage is for life.
Annulments are wrong.
Try to justify annulment any way you want. But what God has joined together, let no one put asunder. Amen 🙏
 
Annullments are not wrong.

They are not dividing a couple, but rather recognizing the fact that they were never bound in the first place due to extenuating circumstances.
 
rcwitness said:
The way I understand canon 1099, is that if someone consented to marriage only on the condition that they could always get a civil divorce and dissolve the marriage for what they consider a just reason, the Sacrament was never confered because of this impediment.

Based on this would it not be very easy, for a spouse who truly wants to be released from the marriage, to confess this and receive an annulment decree from the Trubunal?
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I don’t think such a couple would be allowed to marry in the first place.
 
There is God’s law and there is the Church’s law. They do not always coincide.
Let me ask you a question…My parents attained an annulment 25 years after they were married. 25 years? After 25 years and three children, they attained an annulment.
Please explained to me how this is right?
If there is such a thing as sanctity of marriage, then why do we need annulments?
Spin it how you will.
 
Spin it as you will.
Either two people are married or they are not.
This is merely a state of things that allows people who gain a divorce to come back and be able to park in Holy Communion.
We were never married. So our union in annuled. LOL
 
D-T, I have read your posts.
You have put things eloquently and logically.
But, I still believe annulments are wrong.
 
As someone who deals in civil law, one of the ways in which this occasionally arises is in dealing with pre-nuptial agreements. When Catholics broach the issue of obtaining a pre-nuptial agreement prior to the marriage, one of the areas that needs to be explored is whether or not they are marrying with the expectation that civil divorce is a possibility, and thus they are not acceding to the indissolubility of the Sacrament of marriage.

That isn’t to say every pre-nup will result in an invalid marriage, only that it is a factor which needs to be considered.
 
YourNameHere said:
There is God’s law and there is the Church’s law. They do not always coincide.
Let me ask you a question…My parents attained an annulment 25 years after they were married. 25 years? After 25 years and three children, they attained an annulment.
Please explained to me how this is right?
If there is such a thing as sanctity of marriage, then why do we need annulments?
Spin it how you will.
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Does it bother you that your parents marriage was annulled then? Did one or both remarry? Just curious. I don’t know how old you are.
 
Here’s an example (non-Catholic) that I read. A man and a woman married. One member of the couple had been adopted as an infant - and it turns out insufficient checking into the background was done. The man and the woman were in fact half-siblings, and as such prohibited to marry. Legally, their marriage would be annulled; the Catholic church would do the same had they been Catholic, because it is not possible for them to enter into a valid marriage.

So it’s pretty obvious there are cases where an annulment is possible. What we’re talking about is what causes they are valid for.
 
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D-T, I have read your posts.

You have put things eloquently and logically.

But, I still believe annulments are wrong.
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It isn’t a case of spin.

The Sacrament of Marriage requires both parties to freely and knowingly consent to enter into the union.

An annulment is a recognition that, at the time the marriage was entered into, there were factors that prevented one or both of the parties from freely and knowingly consenting.

Essentially, it would be like a woman pretending to be a man for twenty years (think Disney’s Mulan). She attends seminary disguised as a man, goes through the motions, and gets “ordained”. Then she’s found out or reveals herself.

She isn’t a priest who has to be laicized just because they went through the motions for ordination. She was never ordained, because the Sacrament of Holy Orders can’t be conferred on a woman. In the same way, the Sacrament of Marriage cannot be conferred on someone who did not freely and knowingly consent.
 
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