text: Your message is correct but explains a grave sadness and harm inflicted on those who asked for release from Rome and were denied by JP II. For those men to marry there was no place in the RC to do so and remain a Catholic in good standing, though they sincerely wished to do so. This resulted in sadness and harm to many sincere couples and their families as their church gave them no religious home.
  We are grateful my husband was treated with kindness by Pope Paul VI for we could marry in the RC and did so 39 years ago. Because of this we are active participants in our parish, with my husband a Scripture instructor, RCIA and a member of the parish council. As my husband was very successful in his business career, he would gladly return to service, gratis. We have many friends who would serve also.