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[Cato76]

Does anyone explain how Newt Gingrich is able to stay married to his third wife and still remain in good standing with the Church?  I have searched for this answer and still have not come up with a decent explanation.  Thank you.

[matthew_talbot]

Does anyone explain how Newt Gingrich is able to stay married to his third wife and still remain in good standing with the Church?  I have searched for this answer and still have not come up with a decent explanation.  Thank you.

Explanation: The Novus Ordo is full of mamby-pamby prelates and bishops with no spine.

[Petertherock]

Perhaps he got an annulment from his first 2 marriages?

[kingtheoden]

His annulment decree was surprisingly easy for the tribunals: Newt's first wife died, but he contracted a putative marriage to his second wife when his first wife was still alive.  This meant his second marriage was never a real marriage, and his first has become irrelevant by way of death.

It's not a neat situation, but in this case the decrees of nulity themselves appear to be unusually legitimate.

Edit: Poorly researched.

[WhollyRoaminCatholic]

It's not a neat situation, but in this case the decrees of nulity themselves appear to be unusually legitimate.

  To say the least!

[knittycat]

Every time I see this thread this is what I think of:

[Gerard]

His annulment decree was surprisingly easy for the tribunals: Newt's first wife died, but he contracted a putative marriage to his second wife when his first wife was still alive.  This meant his second marriage was never a real marriage, and his first has become irrelevant by way of death.

It's not a neat situation, but in this case the decrees of nulity themselves appear to be unusually legitimate.

Gingrich's first wife is still alive.

http://factcheck.org/2011/12/the-gingrich-divorce-myth/

[voxxpopulisuxx]

Does anyone explain how Newt Gingrich is able to stay married to his third wife and still remain in good standing with the Church?  I have searched for this answer and still have not come up with a decent explanation.  Thank you.

Explanation: The Novus Ordo is full of mamby-pamby prelates and bishops with no spine.

Voxx and Matt agree so it must be true.

[kingtheoden]

His annulment decree was surprisingly easy for the tribunals: Newt's first wife died, but he contracted a putative marriage to his second wife when his first wife was still alive.  This meant his second marriage was never a real marriage, and his first has become irrelevant by way of death.

It's not a neat situation, but in this case the decrees of nulity themselves appear to be unusually legitimate.

Gingrich's first wife is still alive.

http://factcheck.org/2011/12/the-gingrich-divorce-myth/

You are correct, sir.  Mea culpa!

Never mind my post.  I was going off of a write up I read a while ago, and clearly it was poorly researched.

[Revixit]

Wool of bat and tongue of dog

Oh, wait, this isn't Word Association, is it?