Your children, if you have any, will be bastards. Suppose, after ten years of marriage and three children, you discover that you are invalidly married. Suppose as well that you have come to really hate your mate and want to divorce her in civil court. According to Catholic law, you were never married to begin with, so a civil divorce is irrelevant. Every diocesan tribunal in America requires proof of a civil divorce before accepting a canonical nullity petition.
Scripture permits divorce and remarriage for specified reasons.
Rome does not. Click this box to view or sign our Message Board . Enter your own comments about this site, or the information you find here. If your comments are of general interest, they may be included in an update to this site.