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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So because the priest messed up, you can accompany your civil divorce with a church annulment, and that's ok, because it's following the rules, but the PP's sister-in-law shouldn't have expected a church wedding even though there was a baby on the way -- i.e., it was high time she got married -- because she didn't follow the rules.

A legalistic religion.[/quote]

Yep. So is Judaism, which Christianity came from.

However, as I said, PP's sister-in-law could have applied for a dispensation from the pre-Cana classes. What probably happened is this?

SIL was not a practicing Catholic. If she was, she'd know the rules regarding the [u]sacrament[/u] of marriage. That's right, marriage is considered a sacrament so there is a period of preparation before it. I had to take classes before my daughters were baptized. (When I get my annulment, it will state that due to an impediment that the priest didn't note, the sacramental marriage never occured.)

The Church wedding was to satisfy older relatives.

She got pregnant and needed to speed things up.

She expected a priest who didn't know her (Since she didn't attend Mass regularly) to break the rules for her.

She didn't know to go over the priest's head to ask the bishop because she probably had no idea of the bishop's power over those matters since she wasn't a practicing Catholic.

If the SIL is still interested in the [u]sacrament[/u] of marriage (doubtful), she and DH can take classes to prepare for it. Our parish offers them every 4 months for couples who have civil or non-Catholic marriages but want to have them "regularized".[/quote]

Wow, i am the PP and no where did I ever say they sped things up because she was pregnant. They were engaged forever, practicing Catholics, precana, the works. Wedding planned.  She wasn't  sure she should mention she was pregnant but didn't want to lie and was afraid she might be showing some.  Priest nixed it. They ended up having the ceremony at the wedding reception location since it was payed for in advance. It was awful.

Religions are nothing but cults. . [/quote]

Then her priest overstep his bounds, ignored or knowingly violated canon law, and she should have gone to the bishop to report him. There's no canon law that has pregnancy as an impediment. That would have been covered in pre-Cana classes.[/quote]

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