How did a rich million-dollar donor get an annulment having a wife of many years and children. I guess that's normal church process.
Defend it all you want. I've seen your kind before.
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
“How did a rich million-dollar donor get an annulment having a wife of many years and children. I guess that's normal church process.”
He got it, it seems, the way 50,000 other couples get it each year. He made his application to the marriage tribunal and waited.
And waited.
And waited.
For over a decade.
Most annulment processes take a few years. Mr. Kennedy's took quite a bit longer. If Mr. Kennedy paid any extra for his, he got taken.
“Defend it all you want.”
Who is defending it? I'm merely stating the facts.
Many Catholic couples obtain declarations of nullity of their putative marriages, marriages sometimes of short length, marriages sometimes of 20, 30 years or more, with multiple children.
It costs typically (not always) under a thousand dollars. In my own archdiocese, I believe the standard fee is about $400.
What Mr. Kennedy obtained isn't unusually difficult nor terribly expensive to obtain. There are folks who criticize the Church for making annulments generally too easy to obtain. For anyone. Rich or poor. Well-connected or not. But that's the opposite argument from what is [falsely] being made here.
In that Mr. Kennedy's result took about three or four times longer than most, I doubt that he “bribed” anyone for it.
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I've seen marriages of longer years and more children be annulled on grounds that no one knew about until it was all over. Things like coercion, trickery, mental abuse, etc. It could very well be that there were legit grounds. He didn't ask for it until years after the marriage ended. There are some things that are still private in this world and what goes on inside a marriage is one of them. This is one instance where I give him the benefit of the doubt.