The Vatican City is the ONLY country which does not allow divorce.
Phil does allow divorce but they euphemistically call it annulment.
Phil does not need to change the law. They just need to start calling a judicial annulment, what it is, a divorce.
The Vatican City is the ONLY country which does not allow divorce.
Phil does allow divorce but they euphemistically call it annulment.
Phil does not need to change the law. They just need to start calling a judicial annulment, what it is, a divorce.
I think there is a BIG difference... An annulment means the marriage was null and void from the beginning.. A Divorce is an end to a marriage..Originally Posted by johncar54
It may be a get out clause that most cannot afford but dont expect any other explanation or changes from the R.P Catholic church any time soon.... IMO.
Fred you are of course exactly correct.
If the process were really annulment, then both parties would be free to marry in the catholic church as there would never have been a marriage i.e. null and void from the start.
But that is of course not so. They are separated, divorced, by the secular legal system, in exactly the same way as couples are divorced in the rest of the world.
Thus it is divorce by another name; it is not annulment.
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PS For those who disagree.
Please explain what the difference in reality is between an annulment in Phil and a divorce anywhere else.
Totally agree!
Be responsible with little so that you can be trusted with much!!
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