[ebb tide]

The annulment of my wife was hard enough anyway. I can imagine me sending a bunch of forms with Catholic written all all other them to some of my family members. If that had been the case I would have ended up getting married by an Elvis impersonator in Vegas, not in a Catholic Church.

To me, that doesn't sound like something a sincere Catholic would say or do.

[NKP_Vet]

I mean if my baptists friends and family had to send back forms for me to get married in a Catholic Church, a faith that they despised, I would have waited forever. There is no way I would have ever gotten an annulment. And if I could not have gotten married in a Catholic Church, well I would have wanted Elvis to do the honors. But I suspect that after a few years had passed and it was obvious no character witnesses were coming back the Church might have granted me the annulment. But like I say I didn’t have to go down that road, and never being baptised is the reason I did not have to go through an annulment. I was not a not a baptised Christian.

I hope the Catholic Church does away with some of the red tape involved in an annulment. It takes entirely too long.
And I think if anything comes out of this marriage conference it will probably be easier annulments.