we've gotten many, many times. In fact, you mentioned the books that I wrote. I wrote those books

because as an apologist, especially as a Q&A, apologists for 10 years, that's the topic

that Catholics ask the most questions on. At least that's what I found. The church is teaching

on marriage and divorce, on remarriage, on annulments, and all these

things.

And many people mistakenly think that a Catholic annulment is like a civil divorce in the Catholic

Church.

And that's not what it is.

A civil divorce attempts to dissolve a marriage that exists in the eyes of the civil laws,

in the eyes of the civil society. And the Catholic Church, in the Catholic Church in the

Norman, it doesn't dissolve anything. It is just an investigation into the marriage

to determine whether a valid marriage ever came into existence or not.

If the church determines the marriage tribunal determines that a valid marriage did not come into existence on the wedding day,

then they will declare that marriage to be null.

That's not a divorce.

It's not a disillusion of the marriage. It's simply a recognition

that a marriage never actually existed. A lot of people wonder, well, I mean, how can that

really happen? If it's a valid marriage in the eyes of the law, and everybody thinks it looks like

a marriage, and how could it possibly not be a valid marriage?

How could the church declare that as such?

And the answer is simply that the Catholic Church recognizes there are certain requirements

for valid marriage to come into existence.

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