Posted on 04/08/2005 12:49:01 PM PDT by workerbee
Fixed. ;-)
Where did that come from?
Two groups of people defend the annulment process in the American Catholic Church: those who give out annulments (members of the Tribunal and their friends) and those who have benefited from the process or figure they may want to benefit from it in the near future. I was just guessing which group you fit into.
I'm not Roman Catholic.
OK, I give up: Why are you defending these people???
IMO, the greater failure of the American Catholic Church comes on the front end of things, before the marriages are made.
I could hardly say that is "defending" them.
I don't mean Catholics generally, or even Church leaders. I mean the people who are handing out annulments as if they were rosaries. The standard reason for an annulment these days is some kind of improper prep for "real" Christian marriage. Henry VIII could tell these guys that he and his various wives were never quite in the right frame of mind when they got hitched, and that would be it. No Anglicans necessary. Of course, the Catholic Church would have been disloyal to the plain sense of scripture and to a tradition dating back to the apostles . . . but, as they say at the Tribunal, it's all so "compassionate."
That is the kind of thing I was referring to when I said the problem comes on the front end of things. I take it further, to before the first marriage was made, the one that failed.
I'm not going to enter into the debate with you about Henry VIII or the church that he started. You saw my understanding of the scriptures to be a defense of the American Roman Catholic Church, so I doubt it's very useful to try to iron out my differences with you there either.
Well no. The Church of the time was usually quite amenable to handing out "annulments" ro the rich and powerfulk who needed them (especially Kings of France)
Unfortunately for Henry, his Pope was the King of Spain's bitch. So no annulment for Henry.
Thomas More, of course, was in the pay of . . . ?
Not with that snout, teeth and chin, she wasn't. Ugh.
Isn't Parker Bowles first name Andrew?
Whatever it is he will be at the happy nuptuals tomorrow.
Andrew Parker Bowles
Colonel Andrew Henry Parker Bowles was born on 27 December 1939.
Andrew Parker Bowles was educated at Ampleforth and Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. In 1973 he married Camilla Rosemary Shand. They have two children: Tom and Laura.
Camilla and Andrew Parker Bowles divorced in 1995, and he married Virginia Pitman just a year later.
Oh sorry! LOL, I was off in space somewhere thinking of the other prince (Andrew) and his divorce.
Thanks for correcting my correcting! :-)
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