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In 1993 Sheila 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.
Joe Kennedy needed the annulment to remarry within the Church, and he encouraged his ex-wife to ignore the details. But stunned by the hypocrisy of the process and the betrayal of trust it involved, Kennedy was determined to defend the legitimacy of her former marriage.
Shattered Faith 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 shattered by annulment, she tells a story that will surprise, anger, and move readers of every faith.
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Annulment, Annulment (Canon law), Biography, Cases, Catholic Church, Episcopalian women, Marriage, Politicians' spouses, Religious aspects of Marriage, Trials, litigation, Catholic women, Faith, Kennedy family, Religious aspectsPeople
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Shattered faith: a woman's struggle to stop the Catholic Church from annulling her marriage
1998, H. Holt
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-239) and index.
"An Owl book."
Originally published: Pantheon Books, 1997.
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