When Catholics annul marriages after divorce, are the children regarded as bastards in the eye of the church, then?

im pretty sure divorce and annulment are 2 different things.... [link to www.wordiq.com]

No, the children are still considered legitimate, it just frees the parents to remarry different people in the Church.

At least that is what the nuns told me in Catholic school as a child during religious studies.

All it means is that the marriage should never have taken place and no, the children are not bastards in the eyes of the Church. After an annulment, both parties are free to remarry in the Church. There are stringent requirements as this is not taken lightly.

Divorce is big no-no in Catholic Church
This is breaking of oath to the partner and God.
Children are always innocent and nobody uses word bastard outside US and London slums

after there are children is WAY WAY too late for the catholics to annul a marriage.

It is good to know they would not be regarded as such...thank you for answering my question =)

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You cannot have a marriage annulled in the Catholic Church if you have had children during that marriage.

Divorced in the eyes of the state - no problem.

Annulled in the eyes of God - No. You cannot 'undo' a child, it is actually the core evidence of a consummated marriage.

Annulment rules are very strict in the Catholic Church.


Protestant churches? Who cares.

1983

Called into the chancellery where Monsignor sat at his expansive desk. Usually cluttered, it was now completely barren except for one piece of paper.

He directed me to sit across from him; then he stared at me for a full minute. He had known me since I was a baby. Now, I was in my twenties.

Without any warning and with a suddenness that gave me a start, he slammed his hand down on the piece of paper and shoved it at me so hard, it flew up in the air.

It was my annulment...approved.

"You know better," he chastised me. "Take my advice. Never use this, repent, and become a priest. Now, get out."

2012

I didn't take Monsignor's advice and used the annulment.

Twenty-four years later with three adult kids, my second wife divorced me. A year later, I received an annulment in the mail.

Two wives. Two annulments.

I'm considering going for the record.

put this in the eyes of the church

No. But yhe adults are adulterers after that if they sleep with anyone else.