Campion wrote:
There is no such thing as divorce in the Catholic Church. A person is not free to leave his / her spouse (divorce civilly), and then go marry another. This is very clearly condemned by our Lord in all four gospels. It is called adultery.
An annulment is not a divorce, but rather a declaration that a marriage is null and void. As with all contracts, they can be declared null and void. For example, suppose I have a serious alcohol or drug abuse problem that I purposely hide from my fiance. We marry and only after we marry does she find out about my drug problem. It is now to the point where I am out of control, losing my job, stealing and physically abusing my spouse. My spouse, had she known about my drug problem prior to marrying me, would never have given her free will consent to marry me. I have deceived her and therefore she entered into the marriage contract without full disclosure on my part. In this example, the marriage contract could very well be declared null and void.
So, in other words. If an "annulment" is granted within the Catholic church for reasons that some protestant church would not even condone "divorce", then remarriage is OK because it was called an "annulment" by a Catholic priest, but if a marriage termination is condoned by a protestant pastor for grounds equal to or more severe than the ones you describe here, remarriage is not allowed because the termination of the marriage was called a "divorce" by a protestant pastor?
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