https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2015/09/28/simpler-annulment-pleases-nz-cardinal/ The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Wed, 27 Jan 2016 01:24:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4 https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2015/09/28/simpler-annulment-pleases-nz-cardinal/comment-page-1/#comment-8461 Mon, 28 Sep 2015 05:05:59 +0000 https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=11623#comment-8461 No-one is surprised that Cardinal Dew is pleased to have annulments made easier. Although the grounds for annulment haven’t changed, it’s been for decades now that non-Catholics have called it Catholic divorce, with good reason.
Approximately 23 years ago, I was in attendance when the then head of the Marriage Tribunal addressed a Catholic audience about the subject. I’ll never forget watching him tell us that he could find grounds to annul any marriage.
If King Henry VIII were living now, the Church of England would never have come into existence.

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