text: Part 4
  Catholicism, on the other hand, has uniquely refused divorce. However, I would invite them to read about the history of the annulment process. It as always been there since the high middle ages, but the process was effectively removed from the common people while being available for royalty and nobility and the super wealthy via a complicated legal process in the Vatican. But after V2, that process was made generally available, and has over the years tended to be made easier and easier. Nominally nothing has changed, but in fact everything has changed since now hundreds of thousand of Catholics have been granted annulments. I would invite them to talk with Catholic who have received annulments, and ponder for themselves whether annulments are fairly or unfairly called "Catholic divorces." 
  
  Unstated but assumed in this discussion is that our couple has applied for and been refused an annulment. I would invite them to reflect with me and pray over their own experience.