Author Topic: Divorced father becomes "Catholic" priest (Read 4185 times)

Zeitun · « **Reply #10 on:** July 01, 2013, 06:06:25 PM »

Quote from: Capt McQuigg

an advocate for annulments - I wish I had went just so I could have a better grasp on this topic.

Kinda like those guys with a tie and clipboard at all you can eat buffets doing time share or term life insurance seminars?

Tiffany · « **Reply #11 on:** July 01, 2013, 11:54:40 PM »

I don't think NO annulments are necessarily just for $$ or just given out on a whim. I've seen the paperwork in two different diocese and they all require a great deal of information. I know my parents marriage was not annulled and this was for my father's third wife with the marriage to my mom ending 16+ years before that.

Society doesn't give an example of marriage with no fault divorce laws now. If people have no example in their family or close relatives they may not really understand how serious it is or what it means when they sign their name or say their "vows." I know for myself when I was young I never wanted to be married or thought of marriage as something warm or even knew that married couples were close. I knew nothing of the birds and the bees too. If you don't know marriage is a good thing or have any concept of it, you really don't know.

GottmitunsAlex · « **Reply #12 on:** July 01, 2013, 11:58:39 PM »

Quote from: Charlemagne

Quote from: Capt McQuigg
What are the requirements for a novus ordo annulment?

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

This.

Tiffany · « **Reply #13 on:** July 02, 2013, 12:02:34 AM »

Quote from: GottmitunsAlex

Quote from: Charlemagne
Quote from: Capt McQuigg
What are the requirements for a novus ordo annulment?

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

This.

In the two different diocese I looked into the annulment process, neither one would have required me to pay a dime. I'm not defending NO anything just saying $$$ hasn't been my experience.

Marlelar · « **Reply #14 on:** July 02, 2013, 12:54:20 AM »

Contrast this:

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Pius XII's address on October 3, 1941 to the Roman Rota:

As regards declarations of the nullity of marriage, everyone knows that
the Church is rather wary and disinclined to favor them. Indeed if the
tranquillity, stability, and security of human intercourse in general
demands that contracts be not lightly set aside this is still more true
of a contract of such importance as marriage whose firmness and
stability are necessary for the common welfare of human society as well
as for the private good of the parties and the children and whose
sacramental dignity forbids that it be lightly exposed to the danger of
profanation.

with this:

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In the early 1970s the incidence of annulment began a meteoric rise, increasing at a rate without precedence in Church history. In 1968 the entire American diocesan tribunal system granted fewer than four hundred "formal case" annulments--those requiring trial by a tribunal. Another one hundred or so decrees of nullity were granted administratively, without benefit of trial. Within ten years, hardly an eyeblink in two millennia of Church history, several diocesan tribunals were each issuing more decrees of nullity annually than had been previously granted in any one year by the American Church as a whole. In 1979, for example, the Archdiocese of Chicago's tribunal granted approximately 1,100 annulments, roughly double the total granted by all American tribunals a decade before.

Viewed cross-culturally, annulment data provide stunning comparisons. The Church in the United States, by a wide margin, has been annulling far more marriages than the rest of the Catholic world combined. In 1980 tribunals worldwide processed 89,065 cases judicially and administratively. Of that number 63,962 (72 percent) emanated from America's busy tribunals. Back then, Vatican statistics published in English did not provide the number of annulments actually granted. Cases processed cannot be equated with decrees of nullity. But at the very least they show that American tribunals were hyperactive compared to tribunals in the rest of the Catholic world.