Explainer: What is an annulment? (And why does Pope Francis want to make it easier to get one?) | America Magazine

Explainer: What is an annulment? (And why does Pope Francis want to make it easier to get one?) | America Magazine: No matter how many times you hear it described thus—jokingly or not—an annulment is not just “Catholic divorce.” Church teaching is not that the marriage in question failed, but that the marriage never existed in a sacramental sense.