The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #69112   Message #1171265
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
26-Apr-04 - 10:45 AM
Thread Name: BS: Should Kerry Take Communion?
Subject: RE: BS: Should Kerry Take Communion?
People do get needlessly confused about annullment. An annulment is a ruling that, for some reason or other, there was never a valid marriage, a divorce is a ruling that a valid marriage has ceased to exist.

So you have civil annullments as well as religious anullments. And it is perfectly possible for there to be a civil annulment in circumstances where there is no possibility of a religious annulment, and vice versa.