Questionaire

Questions for a daughter or son who has experienced annulment in the family

For Young Adults or Children Impacted by Annulment: If your parents went through an annulment experience and you wish to respond to a questionnaire, we would appreciate hearing from you .

As you may know, the daughter or son of an 'annulled marriage' is being told by the Catholic Church hierarchy that their parents' marriage was not what they grew up to believe it was. Via an annulment mandate, the children of annulled marriages are told that the Catholic Church hierarchy has decided that God's sacrament and grace was not in the marriage ceremony. This means that one's parents' marriage was never a sanctified union, i.e. God's sacramental grace was not present in that marriage. The hierarchy's mandate indicates that children of this kind of marriage were not in a spiritually graced family. SOS/ RoA&RS believes that while all individuals in marriages make mistakes this does not mean that GOD was not present in that marriage in a sacramental or graced way.

SOS believes that it would make a great deal of difference in the Vatican's attitude toward amending the present annulment process if Catholic publications, such as the Jesuit monthly magazine America, or Commonweal, published articles based on the questions below. Perhaps later, the articles could become a chapter in a book SOS members and their children will write on other issues of annulment.

We are asking you, as a daughter or son who has experienced annulment in your family, to tell us about your insights and experiences regarding the impact and the consequences in your life both emotionally and religiously. Please respond to the following questions and email or mail this to SOS/ RoA&RS at either of the addresses below:

Your thoughts about-

1) Your relationship with each parent prior to the annulment and after the annulment

2) The impact you observed on the Respondent-parent after the annulment was mandated by the Catholic Tribunal, as contrasted with your observations of that parent prior to the annulment

3) What you observed in the Petitioner-parent prior to and after the annulment

4) Marriage now and in the future; have your feelings about marriage changed from what they were before the annulment?

5) Have your feelings about the Catholic Church changed from what they were before the annulment?

6) Anything else you would like to share.....

In the service of sparing other children and young adults the emotionally devastating effects of annulment, SOS/ RoA&RS deeply appreciates your help with these questions. We are looking forward to hearing your response. Blessings on you from SOS/RoA&RS.

Please send your response to us:

or mail: SOS: RoA& RS Box 5119 Cochituate, MA 01778