I wanted to update everyone on AQ (from my original post from 2010) who were praying for or have offered prayers for my wife and I and our family. I was recently notified that my appeal of my wife’s annulment has been denied by the Roman Rota and she now has her official Canon 1108 annulment in her hands. After 23 years and 10 children, I have become irrelevant…
Be assured That I will continue to live my marriage vows, to pray for my family’s reconciliation, and more importantly, to continue to pray for the Graces need to carry this Cross, however long that may be. Be assured that all who have offered – or still may be offering – prayers for us, will continue to be remembered in my Daily Rosary. God Bless you!
23 years of marriage, 10 children and yet an annulment is granted!
No wonder many Protestants call annulments the Catholic divorce.
What is the point of the Church claiming to uphold Our Blessed Lord’s statement against divorce if an annulment is so easy to get?
Approved annulments should be the exception, not the norm.
And what does all this say about the way the priests are preparing people for marriage? If so many apparently valid marriages turn out years later to have been invalid – where were the priests who prepared the couple and performed the wedding ceremony? The Church can’t have it both ways. Either the marriages were properly entered into AND they are therefore valid OR they are invalid and were never properly prepared for.
Hello Fidei,
Please connect with our group of marriage defenders. Some of us are respondents in annulment cases and we’d love to chat with you. Join yahoo group at top of www.Marysadvocates.org, or write me directly. “ma.defending@marysadvocates.org“. What facts lead any tribunal to issue 1108 annulment? Were you a baptized Catholic and married by the justice of the peace?
Just an FYI stinger, Bai is for real. She’s a good lady who has worked very hard on the organization she’s referring you to.
I have a request in already w/ the Yahoo Group. Awaiting a response.
Thanks! to all…
SSPX and Jurisdiction…need I say more? Except, of course, that I will continue to live my marriage vows as best I can and still attend the SSPX Masses as always.
God Bless to all…
Do you have a source for your assertion that the marriages in those cases did not have to be sanated? If you are right, how can the Roman Rots have denied stinger5307′s appeal?
No, I was wrong and have deleted my comment. I checked the Internet regarding that topic and found three mentions in two sources against my opinion. The first is wdtprs.com/blog/2008/07/guest-contribution-qa-with-the-pont-comm-ecclesia-dei-about-sspx-schism-and-sacraments/ July 5, 2008, by Brian Mershon with Fr. Z’s comments and deals with both points (the validity of marriages and confessions with the SSPX and Campos). Concerning the SSPX, Msgr. Perl, then V-P of the Ecclesia Dei Commission says in Brian Mershon’s article, “The Sacraments of Penance and Matrimony, however, require that the priest enjoys the faculties of the diocese or has proper delegation. Since that is not the case with these [SSPX] priests, these sacraments are invalid.” Fr. Z in a bracketted comment emphasizes that conclusion, “Invalid. Marriages and confessions.”
There is a discussion in the comments section of that post (to which Fr. Z dies NOT contribute) concerning Campos. Against several making my abandoned assertion, a commenter named “Indignant Canonist” states, “[T]here was a sanatio in radice for Campos marriages, exclusion made of those couples already separated, who were left free to marry. This is not a secret, it is public domain. A decree of Bishop Rifan informed the faithful of this decision. Ask the Apostolic Administration for a copy.”
The same point is made by none other than SSPX Superior General Bishop Fellay in a July 1, 2008, AQ post by Doctrinairre, “Implications of Lifting the ‘Excommunications’” www.angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20378&sid=59cde9a72bdabc511730297d6561081c (which I retrieved from the text version of the Google cache of that post): “Sanation of Marriages and general confesions: It is said that neither were required in Campos, but Fr. Beck (SSPX) reported to me that Bishop Fellay said that a sanation of marriages had indeed taken place (apparently low profile).”
Hard to comment absent a knowledge of the facts, but will say a prayer for you and your family. Such events are always sad, no matter where justice lies.
Can. 1108 §1. Only those marriages are valid which are contracted before the local ordinary, pastor, or a priest or deacon delegated by either of them, who assist, and before two witnesses according to the rules expressed in the following canons and without prejudice to the exceptions mentioned in cann. 144, 1112, §1, 1116, and 1127, §§1-2.
§2. The person who assists at a marriage is understood to be only that person who is present, asks for the manifestation of the consent of the contracting parties, and receives it in the name of the Church.
Continued prayers for you and your family, dear stinger.
My heartfelt sympathy and prayers. I hope that if the Society is granted a personal prelature shortly, it will spur a reconciliation soon.