text: kag1982, listen to the bitterness in your responses.  God is love, not bitterness, nor cynicism.   We both LOVE Christ's teaching, I hope, but you seem to believe man can mess up God's work.  He is in control and makes the good and the bad work to accomplish His will.  All is well.  If people tell you, "you aren't Catholic", it is because that name embraces beliefs that are from the times of the apostles.  You don't get to choose to follow only what suits you.  I am not "far right".  I try to be "faithful".  There is only one true set of teachings in the Catholic Church.  We follow them or we don't.   Annulments reflect God's mercy because the Church has, in essence, loosed the couple from spiritual culpability for the union, edifying them on the seriousness of the sacrament and their faith and commitment to God, while allowing them to move forward.