My late secretary (and good friend) was a good Catholic lady – who married a Catholic man and bore him two children. Livin’ the Catholic Dream!
Later on, her husband had an affair with a nun (I’m NOT making this up!) whom he’d impregnated (very fertile those Catholics!) and subsequently divorced my friend – and married the penguin.
Oi freaking veh!
Many years later, my friend met a nice man who was Protestant – who’d proposed – but she would not marry him unless . . . Hullo! The Church came to the rescue! For a measly Ten Thousand Dollar “donation” the Church annulled her “first” marriage so she was free – “in God’s Eyes” – to marry – provided the Protestant agreed that any children they might have must be raised in the Catholic Church. So a mom with two kids had her marriage annulled. Doesn’t that make the kids b*stards?
Ten thousand dollars was an awful lot of money for a single mom working two jobs and raising two children – her car cost far less, and her car was as much a POS as her first husband . . .
But it’s good that the Church was there to assist her in her time of need . . . /s
Just don’t sit on that side of the sofa . . .