24 September 2015, The Tablet

Quickie annulments


 
 What on earth difference will “easier” annulments make? Why can’t the Church recognise that sometimes people change and marriages “die”?That a marriage dies/fails is not to say that it did not exist in the first place. With the best will in the world, it sometimes becomes impossible for a couple to remain together. But the marriage did exist and it is insulting to the couple and hurtful to the children to intimate, as annulment does, that it did not.May I use my case as a typical example? Courting in “purity” for four years, conceiving our first (much-loved) child within two months of the wedding using the farcical safe period, and then going on to have three more much-loved children (two “planned”, the other conceived on the 21s
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