Roman Catholics: Second Thoughts on Second Marriages

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Even as they push for a revision of Catholic marriage rules, the theologians concede that any change will be slow in coming. Faced with a possibly revolutionary decision involving the church's stand on birth control, prudent Pope Paul VI is most unlikely to follow it up with an equally radical change in divorce law. More than once, he has expressed alarm at the mounting number of annulment cases clogging the Sacred Rota, the church's final court of appeal on such problems.

* Most common grounds: impotence, refusal to have children, coercion of one of the partners into wedlock, close blood ties.

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