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To: verdugo

You wrote:

“The majority of annulments are for psychological reason, unheard of in the history of the Church.”

Incorrect. Defects because of psychological reasons have been discussed in annulment cases since at least the 12th century. As the old Catholic Encyclopedia (written a century ago!) notes: “It is clear that the impediments improperly so-called are as varied as the ways in which the validity of the matrimonial consent, psychologically considered, can be affected.”

It should be no surprise to anyone who has actually studied this issue that the Church understands psychology better now then it once did and this is at the same time as a tremendous cultural and ecclesial crisis in which marriage is almost universally misunderstood (especially since the rise of birth control).

“If a person that has an annulment and is re-married to another, later learns more about annulments, and realizes that his annulment may have been, likely was bogus, they have an obligation to correct the situation, for they may be living in adultery.”

And there is no reason to believe that happens. 1) Those who seek annulments always believe there is a valid reason for the annulment. They do not later “learn” that they were mistaken when they filed for the annulment. 2) It is always the reverse. People learn their marriage may have been invalid and file for the annulment.


39 posted on 09/10/2010 4:48:58 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Part of the Vast Catholic Conspiracy (hat tip to Kells))
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To: vladimir998

see my new thread “American Annulment Mills”, for more information on, from article:

“About two-thirds of American annulments are based on canon 1095, which involves psychological opinions—hardly an exact science and subject to facile adulteration”..... the tribunal admits that there really is no way to assess the condition of the bride’s and groom’s minds when they exchanged vows (consent), but that the behavior of the couple ten or twenty years hence can reveal, with moral certitude, that they suffered from a grave lack of discretionary judgment concerning essential matrimonial rights and obligations of permanence, fidelity and openness to children at the time of their wedding. Yet these same couples, despite allegedly incriminating evidence of contractual incapacity for ten or twenty years, can suddenly transmogrify into having adequate capacity for a second marriage!...

Realistically, the very few people incapable of contracting marriage as specified in canon 1095, are so deranged that they simply don’t get married. “


40 posted on 09/10/2010 5:36:53 PM PDT by verdugo
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