Ohio Divorce Case
A legal argument was made in the Ohio case asking civil court to transfer jurisdiction to church tribunal because of couple's agreement to be married in accordance with Church law.  Presently, the stay-at-home mom in this case has had her children taken forcibly taken from home.  Suggested letters are posted. Follow Case

Contact Catholic Priests, Bishops
Read suggested procedures for questioning church dissenter's teaching.
Ask your priest
Ask your priest to adamantly correct those seeking divorce, or profiting from divorce to STOP and to preach the truth. Bring him several poignant excerpts to support your convictions.
Petition Diocese Tribunal
Ask local diocese tribunal to investigate if Spouse has lawful reason for leaving family, and ask if they'll issue a church separation decree including findings for upbringing of children and support.
Annulment.FAQ Frequently Asked Questions, so participants can give useful info to tribunal
The reason this site was assembled to   • Inform you of your rights as a petitioner or respondent  • Provide a  concise, accurate, and down to earth guide for the faithful  • Clear the misinformation about declarations of nullities contained in many publications  • Assist tribunals by providing a guide for petitioners and respondents
Expect Support, like they get in Sicily
When you know you've been abandoned and ARE married, in Sicily, the Bishop supports you with the truth and the opportunity to fellowship with others in your same situation.  Ask your local dicoese for the same support.
When in Doubt Throw it Out
Share Poem with Serious Christians.  If parents' love is meaningless, children will doubt God's love.
Annulment Fighting for Dummies
Sheryl Temaat, freelance writer for Homiletic and Pastoral Review, pulls together advise for annulment respondants and priests.  This is her developing list of what you have a right to know.
Sample letter to priest, bishop
Due to the nature of our laws, now, when couples marry, they are essentially rolling a Trojan Horse into their homes, since the state marriage license — which priests require all couples to obtain — is the vehicle the courts use to gain total control over the family, once one spouse sets foot into an attorney's office to begin a divorce action.

Contact Catholic Educators
Sheryl asking EWTN's Johnette Benkovich Nov. 12, 2005
Johnette Benkovich gave a woman who is in an unhappy marriage advice that perhaps the marriage is invalid because the man most likely had his problems before the marriage took place.  I am just wondering if Johnette is aware that most U.S. tribunalists are using "failure to form a communion of life," or similar wording, in order to declare marriages null in U.S. tribunals, and that the Roman Rota overturns these declarations of nullity because there is no such ground for invalidity.
EWTN's Benkovich November 11, 2005 by Jodi
...you advised a woman who was married to an addict.  The woman did not want a divorce and had been praying rosaries for her husband's conversion.  ... You advised her to talk to her local tribunal and made the comment that he probably had these problems before the marriage and therefore was likely not emotionally capable of marriage. I was quite saddened that you would give this woman this advice. ...
South Bend / Fort Wayne, Questioning Our Sunday Visotor's story about Divorce
Reaction to a recent article on about divorce and remarriage that was sent to the Marriage and Family office of Bishop John D'Arcy. The Bishop is the chairman of the board of OSV. In the letter she states that canon Law 1692, and 1151-1155 require that couples obtain a tribunal or bishop's separation decree before approaching a civil divorce court.
Mark Shea's Blog letter to their Committee on Marriage and Family28 Oct 2005  by Mark
A reader writes: I thought maybe you would like to post this about the dissenter who is teaching the USCCB how to write their pastoral letter on marriage. I wrote this letter to their Committee on Marriage and Family Dear Committee on ...
Ask Priests to teach about limits on divorce, using Encylical and Canon Law
...  with no-fault divorce, an abandoning spouse can use the civil court to remove innocent children from the home of the dedicated, innocent spouse.   Canon law specifies the need to obtain authorization from one’s bishop before trying to obtain a civil divorce or legal separation, and this canon law likely comes from Pope Leo XIII’s Encyclical Arcanum. Perhaps you’d consider teaching  Catholics about this encyclical too
Catholic Answers Forum, Radio Show Annulments
I would like to discuss the 9/23 show on anullments. Msgr. Dominic Bottino fielded a question from a listener during the last 5 minutes of the show. The listener asked Msgr. Bottino to respond to the fact mentioned in Robert Vasoli's book on annulments that 90% of U.S. annulments based on psychological consent that go to the Roman Rota are overturned
IL, Archdiocese of Chicago's website, apparent disparity between Church Teaching
I am concerned, however, with what I have read on the Archdiocese of Chicago's web site concerning marriage and annulment. My concern stems from what appears to be a disparity with Church teaching regarding divorce, separation and the annulment process.  Your Eminence, please refer to the attached letter to Elsie Radtke, Reply
MI, Analysis of Peters by Temaat
It has been the argument of some that the annulment process as it is conducted in American diocesan tribunals is facilitating and promoting divorce and remarriage among Catholics at an unprecedented rate. Some examples from Peters’ latest book supports that argument in the following ways:
NJ,  Cardinal Ratzinger and Bishop of Paterson regarding Fr. Catoir
Fr. Catoir [tribunal judge] argues that people can make up their own minds as to whether or not they are married. ... A priest ... may encourage them to follow their conscience if the facts seem to support them  Awaiting Reply
NJ,  Fr. John Catoir
Sheryl T. asks Fr. Catoir to explain his statement that couples who are in their second marriages (without an annulment from their first marriage) can receive the Eucharist after talking with a priest or counsel "about whether to proceed on the basis of conscience or the internal forum." Replies included.
OH,  Attack on Christian Marriage and the Magisterium by the Cleveland Diocese
On behalf of local parishioners we are submitting to you the following documentation of serious dissent from Catholic faith being disseminated in the Cleveland Diocese some of which has the imprimatur of Bishop Anthony M. Pilla.  From Save Our Church, Medina OH.  Letter was also sent to Apostolic Nuncio.Replies: NONE