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Why do people pay much attention to a bunch of guys that worship a sky wizard & his hippy, tree hugging son?What a weird world.
Maybe someone here can tell me the "practical difference" between an annulment and a divorce. I realize they are not the same thing, but don't they accomplish exactly the same thing?I was raised in a pretty strict protestant home and always wanted to be a catholic as a kid. I had to follow all these rules about what I could and couldn't do (fun things always lined up on the "couldn't side) and they got to do whatever they wanted and then just go to confession and everything was reset.
It will lock when enough people cherrypick the particular Pope quotes that fit their ideology and disparage the people who use Pope quotes that don't fit their ideology.
A divorce is civil & secular and an annulment is religiously related. That probably still doesn't answer your question?
I am not Catholic so I don't know if people will care. But I think the Christian Church has traditionally spent too much time on laws and judgement and not enough time on love and compassion. I find Pope Francis a breath of fesh air not because he seems more liberal, but because he seems to be a man of humility and compassion, and listens with a sense of genuine-ness.
Annulment sounds kinda like a get out of jail free card. Like a special rider that lets you break the no-divorce rule.
In a way, I suppose. Marriage is a contractual agreement. Annulment voids the contract ([a]null and void). Divorce terminates the contract.
So, other than semantics..... there is no difference.
John Paul II was ideal for his time of appointment but an anachronism towards the end. Francis is a breath of fresh air - how can any caring human being believe that God views homosexual love as less worthy than heterosexual affection? The Church is at a critical juncture in its history and must adjust if it is to survive.
That's actually a pretty fair description. Divorce used to be a total no no in the Catholic Church. It was illegal in Ireland as recently as 1995. If you got an annulment, though, it was as if your marriage never happened. You could marry again in the church (a no no if only divorced, not annulled).
For some reason I was always under the impression that an annulment was like saying some defect in the marriage (for example failure to consummate, material misrepresentation, etc) caused the marriage to be invalid, like it never happened. A divorce, I always thought, was just a severing of the marriage. One treated the marriage as never existing, the other treated it as a contract that was destroyed. I'm not sure where I got that impression, but I guess it's nice to finally know.I should note that I was not raised Catholic, so that may have some impact on my frame of reference.
Hopefully this doesn't take us into the locked thread alley, but as a non-catholic (lutheran...so catholic lite, twice the salvation, half the guilt) I've always been confused by how "strict" the church is and how blatantly the believers ignore the churches rules.My wife is catholic and before we got married we had a serious discussion about what faith we wanted to follow. She didn't have to become lutheran, but I told her in no uncertain terms I would not become catholic. I just can't get up before god and pledge to faithfully adhere to his rules per the catholic church when I know I'm going to ignore/fight against 75% of them.Apologizes for my callousness but why is it that folks of the catholic faith hold it to be such a part of their identity and speak so highly of it but than choose to ignore it when it comes to the vast majority of their life decisions/politics?The most liberal people I know are catholic....clearly I'm missing something. I'm not judging in any way just trying to understand it. My wife couldn't explain it and she went to a catholic school for everything but high school and college.