I saw this on a talk show and I don't understand. He apparently wanted the annulment so he could marry another woman. Would this make his children from that marriage illegitimate? Maybe I need to be Catholic to understand but could someone explain?
2007-06-22 12:21:09 · 23 answers · asked by Julia Sugarbaker 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
brokendrew-sorry, I'm neither Catholic nor married. I don't know where you get off thinking this was my experience.
2007-06-22 12:25:46 · update #1
The Catholic Church believes that God does not recognize civil divorces.
Jesus said, "Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate." (Mark 10:9)
However there may be hope of a declaration of nullity.
The term "annulment" is a misnomer because the Church does not undo or erase a marriage bond.
Rather the Church issues a declaration of nullity when it discovers that the parties were not truly joined by God and hence a full spiritual sacramental marriage as understood by the Church was not present.
Then the parties are free to marry for the first time.
The procedure is the same whether or not there are children in the marriage. If a declaration of nullity is granted then the children are still considered legitimate and retain all legal rights (Canon 1137).
With love in Christ.
2007-06-22 17:31:56 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Daytime talk show? Since when does anyone on a daytime talk show do anything remotely normal? Don't go by their example. The reason these people are on such shows is because they do things "differently".
An annulment is not the same thing as a divorce, if that's what you're wondering. A divorce dissolves a legit marriage in terms of political law, but not God's Law. An annulement is a declaration that, for whatever reason, a valid marital union never existed in the first place. This is why the annuled can remarry but the divorced cannot.
One can request the Church have a canon lawyer look into the possibility of annulment. This is a lenghly, time-consuming process where there is no guarantee it will end with an annulment.
With regards to the children, by who's standards are they illegitimate? The reason each of us exist is because God willed it - even if the parents did not. From God's point oif view, there is no such thing as an illegitimate child.
When a marriage with children is annuled, no negative stigmaa are suddenly applied to them, since they bear no responsibility for the marriage annulment.
2007-06-25 06:21:14 · answer #2 · answered by Daver 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic perspective on marriage is that of a sacrament. Meaning that if a marriage is to be annulled it must have been invalid from the beginning.A person can not simply change their mind about being married or even cheat in order to get an annulment,it all depends on the validity of the marriage at the time the vows were said.
If the annullement is successful, the children would not be considered illegitimate because they came from a legal or civil marriage but not a valid one within the Church.
2007-06-26 02:48:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Within the Catholic Faith, one thing I do know about is that if a Catholic marry's someone whom ISN'T Catholic, whether they have been together 1 minute or 100, the Catholic can get an annulment because the marriage isn't recognized or "sanctioned" as "legal"...and the children are often called illegitimate by the Church even when they are together.
Peace be with you :)
2007-06-22 12:29:02 · answer #4 · answered by ForeverSet 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
An 'annulment' in the Catholic church is not 'the same' as a divorce in civil court ... his children would still be 'legitimate' if he had the annulment. This annulment is strictly a 'religious' thing, because the Catholics truly believe that ONLY ONE MARRIAGE is 'allowed' but knows that sometimes people (even those married in the Catholic church) get married for the 'wrong reasons' ... and an 'annulment' is EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO GET if you are a Catholic, because you must go though a 'trial' by 'priests' who are TRAINED to tell if you are 'lying' about your previous marriage ... but if you ARE a Catholic, then the 'annulment' is NECESSARY if you are to continue to 'take the Eucharist' (Communion) ... but you can 'remarry' and can even go to church every day and you'll still be a Catholic ... you just can't take the Eucharist, because to do that you must be 'in good standing' with the church. No 'annulment' and you'll be 'excommunicated' (which means only that you can't take 'communion' not that you can't go to a Catholic church ... in fact, most people who are 'excommunicated' are told they MUST GO TO CHURCH DAILY because their 'souls' need saving even MORE!
2007-06-22 12:41:16 · answer #5 · answered by Kris L 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's a very complicated process, he has to have grounds for an annulment which are rare, and no the children aren't considered illegitimate technically speaking. Father K my sister didn't pay more then 30 dollars for her annulment and that was just to draw her case.
2007-06-22 12:25:50 · answer #6 · answered by Borinke 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was raised Catholic. I am not Catholic any longer. I do not understand this either. Money and power talks and persistence pays off.
My sister could have had her marriage annulled through the Catholic Church but she chose not to. She would never deny a marriage that brought her son into the world.
2007-06-22 12:25:20 · answer #7 · answered by Patti C 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The church recognises all criminal marriages, so so you might get married in a catholic church a individual married earlier has to: a million. teach the church a certificates of divorce if the marriage grow to be a non christian marriage (in spite of if one or the two events have been catholic). so so a tactics as Sally andTom/Bob is worried the church would desire to work out a certificates of divorce of the las vegas ceremony. through fact of this Nicole grow to be allowed a Catholic marriage even although she did no longer have an annulment, however the article does no longer emphasise on the fact that she grow to be "divorced" from Tom. The church would have refused to marry her if she grow to be no longer divorced from Tom. (i've got been interior an analogous undertaking as Nicole, I had to teach a certificates of divorce through fact the Unitarian ceremony grow to be no longer viewed christian). 2. If it grow to be a Christian marriage annulment is needed. Divorce won't be appropriate. there is checklist of denominations that the Catholic church considers christian, i think of Baptists, lutherans, presbyterians, eastern orthodox, coptic, methodist are some. as a rule all eastern orthodox and mainstream protestant. i think of it each and all of the denomination that settle for the trinity.
2016-10-02 23:40:26 · answer #8 · answered by minick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have to agree with Fr. K just a bit here - I wouldn't be surprised if money came into play. Sad, but true.
Otherwise, I'm no expert in this area of canon law, but if his wife left him, refused to have anything to do with him or his children, and became as anti-Catholic as possible, I think those might be grounds to start the process.
But no, his children would not be considered illegitimate. That is a legal definition, not a religious one. (At least, not anymore.)
2007-06-22 12:25:14 · answer #9 · answered by Church Music Girl 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The only way to get an annulment is if the first marriage was never valid to begin with
2007-06-22 12:31:12 · answer #10 · answered by Gods child 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋