Sentence examples for annulment to from inspiring English sources

For example, there was disagreement about allowing remarried Catholics without an annulment to receive Communion.

Rabbi Schwartz cautioned that for an annulment to occur, a spouse's flaw must have been present but hidden before the marriage.

Church law forbids divorced Catholics who remarry without an annulment to their first marriage from receiving communion, unless they abstain from sexual relations in their second union.

At the same time, the new pope will also be expected to address the long-pending issue of whether the church should allow Catholics who have divorced and remarried without an annulment to receive communion.

The resignation sets up a struggle between the staunchest conservatives, in Benedict's mold, who advocate a smaller church of more fervent believers, and those who believe that the church can broaden its appeal in small but significant ways, like allowing divorced Catholics who remarry without an annulment to receive communion or loosening restrictions on condom use in an effort to prevent AIDS.

During these dark days for the Roman Catholic Church, it is especially refreshing to read that Phil Donahue, who describes himself as still a Catholic, refuses to apply for a Catholic annulment to "legitimize" his second marriage and that he hopes that the church will move away from what he calls its "antisexual theology" (The Way We Live Now, David Wallis, April 14).

Francis had already called for annulments to be free, saying all Catholics have the right to justice from the church.

The Apostolic Signatura handles canon law cases from around the world, from marriage annulments to parish closings; since 2008 Burke has effectively served as the chief justice of the church's supreme court.

It takes a determined kind of time-travelling annulment fetishist to work to undo the marriages that have already occurred in the ACT – a bit like an episode of Doctor Who written and directed by The Westboro Baptist church.

"What we're seeing are very practical moves to speed up the annulment process, to make them more user friendly and respond to the needs of the poor and the marginalized," the Rev. James Bretzke, a Jesuit priest and theology professor at Boston College, said in an email.

In 1989, for instance, the American bishops were invited to Rome and admonished on a range of issues, from the views on women's role in Catholicism, to the relatively high number of marital annulments dispensed to American Catholics, to a general laxity regarding basic tenets of the faith.