——I’m not Catholic, but I think they allow remarriage when the first marriage had adultery and physical abuse by the other partner.-——
I think anulllment is the only solution in that situation (after a small fee to the church)
Then you are free to remarry. The RCC does not allow for a civil divorce.
Someone correct me if I am wrong...
The Catholic Church grants annulments in the case of adultery, abuse and abandonment.
The RCC does “allow” civil divorce. What it does not allow is taking another lover when your partner through marriage is alive.
An annulment is a call made by the church (after investigation of the facts) that a marriage was never made in the first place (that is, it lacked complete self gift, or lacked fidelity, or lacked openness to children, or was coerced). Thus the “small fee.”
So if the 19 yo in a “marriage” that’s abusive gets a civil divorce, the RCC doesn’t say that can’t happen. If the 19 yo wants a church wedding/marriage after said civil divorce, she must seek to have her first union declared “never has been.”