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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 12:10:32 EST
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- From: DICK HAROLD <ITNEWS@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Forwarded mail, and comments
- In-Reply-To: Message of Wed,
- 30 Dec 1992 09:29:13 EST from <MNHCC%CUNYVM.BITNET
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- On Wed, 30 Dec 1992 09:29:13 EST Marty Helgesen said:
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- >spouse. An annulment does not dissolve a marriage, it says there
- >never was a marriage. If the statement that there never was a mar-
- >riage is made in error, because of a lie, the marriage remains in
- >effect.) However, since other people are reading this, not just you,
- >I want to make a few comments on annulments. An annulment is not a
- >moral judgment against the people involved. In some cases the inval-
- >idating impediment may not have been known, or the people who knew it
- >may not have realized that it was an impediment. Also, an annulment
- >does not mean that the children of the putative marriage are illegit-
- >imate. I know that the old code of canon law, and I assume the new
- >one is the same, recognized the legitimacy of children born of a
- >marriage later found to be invalid. I mention this because elsewhere
- >I have read of people saying they would not seek annulments because
- -----some text deleted-----
-
- A quick question comes to mind...
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- What if... Let us say that I married several years ago for the wrong
- reasons, a clear issue, let us say, for an annulment. But, let us say,
- I do not want an annulment. I now love my wife and want to continue
- in the marriage living according to God's law (church law too)?
-
- An Annulment would say that the marriage never existed in the first
- place. The only difference is that I, or my wife, never requested
- the annulment. Where does that put the existing relationship? Let
- us say there are no children just to make it simple.
-
- By the way, my wife and I wanted to get married, are still married and will
- stay married until...
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