#12311 Answering Every Question About Annulments & Divorce w/ Rose Sweet - Rose Sweet
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🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we explore the complexities of annulments and divorce, addressing questions like whether annulments are simply a form of Catholic divorce and concerns about the potential abuse of the annulment process.
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Questions Covered:
- 11:30 – Is Jesus’ teaching on marriage beautiful or terrifying?
- 19:00 – Aren’t annulments just Catholic divorce?
- 29:03 – So many people get annulments – isn’t the annulment process abused?
- 40:40 – Are psychological grounds for annulment too subjective?
- 45:30 – When did annulments start in the Catholic Church?
- 50:40 – Objection: annulments cost too much money and they take too long.
Transcript
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| 0:11.5 | Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Hello and welcome to Calvaganza live. I am Cy Kelly, your host, just as happy as can be to be back here on a Monday afternoon. Thanks so much for |
| 0:38.5 | taking the time with us. We've got a great week, actually. We're going to have a great week |
| 0:42.1 | of shows, and we're starting it off big. This hour and next, we're going to try to answer |
| 0:48.8 | every objection that we can think of to the Catholic annulment process. |
| 0:56.0 | This is one way of learning about annulments, for one thing. |
| 0:59.0 | I know that many, many people have questions. |
| 1:03.0 | There are people that we talk to them all the time. |
| 1:05.0 | They're interested in coming into the church, |
| 1:07.0 | but they don't know if their marriage situation will prevent them, |
| 1:10.0 | all that kind of stuff. So people are very interested in this topic of annulments, but we wanted to answer every |
| 1:17.1 | single possible question we could get to about annulments, like are they just a form of Catholic |
| 1:22.6 | divorce? And is there, like, is it just kind of legalism? Is this just Catholic legalism? Or is there any root for |
| 1:29.3 | this in the Bible and the teaching of the, you know, of the prophets and the and the scriptures |
| 1:35.5 | and Jesus himself? Is this even related to that? All that. That's what we're going to do. |
| 1:40.5 | So who would you call if you wanted to get every question you could think of |
| 1:44.9 | answered about annulments? And the answer is not Ghostbusters. I know people my age, who are you going to |
| 1:50.9 | call? And they always say Ghostbusters. No, it's Rose Sweet. Rose Sweet is our guest on. She comes on |
| 1:57.4 | quite regularly. We talk about all kinds of things, often various things having to do with marriage, divorce, and annulment, but other things as well. |
| 2:05.6 | She's a life coach. |
| 2:06.7 | She's an author. |
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