BTW, according to a more neutral source than the Catholic League (whom I don't support), the Boston Globe, Kerry and Teresa Heinz, both of whom are Catholic, were married in a civil ceremony. It is well known that he applied for an annulment, and his first wife protested it.

It is the timing of his application for annulment, as well as the facts surrounding it, that could cause problems for him. It appears he may not have applied for the annulment for religious reasons, but political ones (ie he was considering running for president). At the time he applied for his annulment in the late 1990s, his children were adults, he had been divorced for nearly a decade, and remarried in a civil ceremony. So it does beg the question, was his only reason for the annulment to allow him to claim to have a legitimate Catholic marriage when running for president, since there seems to be no other legitimate reason for seeking an annulment otherwise.

Don't forget, Kerry considered running as a challenger to Gore for the 2000 race, and is said to have been mightily disappointed when Gore chose Lieberman over him for veep.