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Old 05-18-2006, 10:02 AM
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Originally Posted by apotropoxy";p=&quot View Post
Your mother was not too far off. Catholics may be granted an annulment if sexual intercourse is not a part of the relationship.
Divorce, on the other hand, is never permitted.
But there are other grounds for granting of annulment in the RC - people tend to mirror the RC's own sexual fixations, and project same back onto them, even when its inappropriate or wrong.

Well, I suppose there is a kind of poetic justice in all that...
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