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Shattered Faith - Hardcover

Kennedy, Sheila Rauch

 
9780679439950: Shattered Faith
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ISBN 10: 0679439951 ISBN 13: 9780679439950
Verlag: Pantheon Books, 1997

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Interweaves the author's experiences with those of other women whose lives were shattered by the annulment process of the American Catholic Church, describing how the Church uses annulment and her battle to defend the legitimacy of her marriage to Congressman Joseph Kennedy. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

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<b>Sheila Rauch Kennedy</b> is a city planner who specializes in housing and community development.  She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her two sons.

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ila Rauch Kennedy received a letter from the Boston Catholic Archdiocese announcing that her former husband, Congressman Joseph Kennedy, was seeking an annulment of their marriage. If the Church granted the annulment, the marriage, which had lasted twelve years, would be rendered nonexistent -- not simply ended, as was stated in the divorce decree, but invalid from the start. And their two sons would be regarded as children of an unsanctified union. Joseph Kennedy needed the annulment to remarry within the Church, and he encouraged his ex-wife to ignore the details. Stunned by the hypocrisy of the process and the betrayal of trust it involved, Sheila Rauch Kennedy was determined to defend the legitimacy of her former marriage.<br><br><b>Shattered Faith</b> is the fascinating chronicle of that struggle, and of what Kennedy uncovered about the uses and frequency of annulments in the United States. Interweaving her own experiences with those of other women whose trust in the Church was shatte

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In 1993, my former husband asked the Catholic Church to annul our marriage. For him an annulment was a simple matter and his reasons for wanting one were straightforward. We had been divorced for over two years and he wanted to remarry. Since the only way he could do so and remain in good standing within the Church was to have our marriage declared invalid, he was prepared to testify before a church court that in the eyes of God our marriage had never existed ...

My husband and I had known each other for nine years before we married in a Catholic ceremony. We had been married for twelve years before we divorced, and we had two wonderful children. I could not understand how anyone could claim that our marriage had never been valid. It seemed that if I were to agree to an annulment, I would be lying before God.

I knew I would defend my marriage.

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Verlag
Pantheon Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679439951
ISBN 13 
9780679439950
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
238
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