I am aware of the technical distinction between "divorce" and "annulment," but the fact of the matter is that more than 90% of annulments sought in the United States are granted. It strains reason, logic, and credulity to conclude that so many marriages are "invalid" from the beginning. It is also an indisputable fact that the rise in the number of annulments did not start until the 1960's, after the "reforms" of the Second Vatican Council.

I am not the only one who has questioned the excessive number of annulments granted in the United States. In October 1998, Pope John Paul II, in an address to U.S. bishops, expressed his grave concern about the number of annulments.

See www.defendingholymatrimony.org/html/blasts_annulments.html

If the Pope does not understand the process, then I can be excused for failing to understand it as well.

John Paul Parks (talk) 21:57, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The issue of excessive granting of annulments in the US, I cannot comment upon at all and it is completely irrelevant to my call, in any event. How does your information at all justify the erroneous claim that, 'annulment' is Catholicism's term for 'divorce'. My call is simply to rectify this inaccuracy without engaging in any debate about Church laxity. I clearly ask for a proper distinction be made between the two in the article. How can you possibly object to that?Dingerooz (talk) 18:05, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]