WAW Using God II

[pigskin]

Interesting. I am not sure of this b/c I took some Canon law classes at the Catholic Law school I attended and some of these things seem more rigid than are practiced.

My brother & his wife are both in their 2nd marriages and each has 3 kids from those prior M's, neither got annulments of their first M's. But they had a full mass at their Catholic wedding. I wonder now about their first m's, guessing neither took place in a Catholic church...Of course you could marry outside the Church, which I assume you're not okay with?

But on another note, why do you think the marriage was never valid? ( Just curious and hey, if it's an off limits topic, that's cool)
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Your brother and his wife are in an invalid marriage currently according to what the church teaches. According to my pastor, marriages of catholics outside of the church are still recognized as marriages that need to be annulled if one wishes to be married in the catholic church to a different spouse.

To answer your question, yes, if I ever got married again it would have to be in the catholic church. I have no interest in any other arrangement.

Why do I think the marriage was invalid? Honestly, I'm not sure that I do. I was damn sure of what I was doing from my standpoint. And there was no way I was ever going to walk away from my commitment. But my pastor told me the annulment process digs into signs and patterns of behavior that one or both parties may have not picked up on for whatever reason. I guess I won't know if any of that applies in my case until I get into it. The fact that my W wasn't catholic and at least recently talked about how she never felt marriage is forever may play into it somewhat.