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The five stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. These are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. Not everyone goes through all of them or in a prescribed order. At times, people in grief will...

This information is offered to help those who seek a better understanding about the grounds used to declare marriage null.  Canon law is provided along with commentary explanation for each of the seven grounds...

An annulment is an official Church declaration that marriage no longer binds the couple spiritually. This is purely a religious matter and has no civil effects in the United States. If granted, an annulment states that the marriage never had all the essential elements...

A marital impediment is something that separates a couple -- or better put, it causes them to be unable to be joined. The Church, as expressed in its Canon Law, teaches that there are twelve such impediments to a Sacrament of Marriage. Of these impediments...

Have the courage to be afraid. Stop trying to think out a solution for the moment:  there isn't one.  One day there may be;  God will then show it to you.  In the meantime, accept it all and offer that to God, because...

Discover the meaning of God’s teaching on the necessity of unconditional forgiveness (mercy) as well as how there can be justice in forgiving even someone who isn’t sorry for the harm or evil done. Being open to forgiveness is an act of mercy that involves a choice by the offended person, while reconciliation is an act of justice involving both...