Was the Kerry marriage annulled?Boston -- Had John Kerry  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. won the 2004 USA presidential election, American Catholics would have had a further concern beyond his stances on abortion and "gay marriage". Kerry had once been married to a lady named Julia Thorne This article is about the deceased ex-wife of US Senator John Kerry. For the alter ego on the American TV series, "Alias", see Julia Thorne (Alias). Julia Stimson Thorne (16 September 1944 – 27 April 2006) was a writer and the first wife of U.S. . They divorced, after which he married widow Teresa Heinz. As his first marriage took place in a Catholic church, he is not allowed to marry again unless he has been granted an annulment annulment Legal invalidation of a marriage. It announces the invalidity of a marriage that was void from its inception. It is to be distinguished from dissolution or divorce. To justify annulment, the marriage contract must have a defect (e.g. . But, did he do this? Right up to election day, this question was never satisfactorily answered for American Catholic voters. After the election both the Boston and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of dioceses let it be known that they had no record of annulment of Senator Kerry's first marriage. In the December 2004 edition of Catholic World Report, Edward Peters, a doctor of both canon and civil law, tackled the thorny issue. Noting that records of civil marriage and divorce are easily available for public verification (a process which does not entail violation of individual privacy) Peters has recommended a similar system by which diocesan marriage tribunals make records of decrees of nullity nullity n. something which may be treated as nothing, as if it did not exist or never happened. This can occur by court ruling or enactment of a statute. The most common example is a nullity of a marriage by a court judgment. NULLITY. , with basic information, available for the public record. |
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