New Annulments Booklet

AnnulmentsYesterday at Catholic Answers we got my new annulments booklet from the printers.

Many people have basic questions about annulments that they need to get answered in order to get the process rolling (at which point they need more detailed answers).

Unfortunately, I haven’t been aware of any orthodox Catholic booklets dealing with the topic.

So I wrote one.

The booklet covers things such as:

*  What is an annulment?
    * Is an annulment the same as a divorce?
    * How can I know if I need an annulment?
    * Do annulments cost anything?
    * How long do annulments take?
    * What are the reasons that the Church would consider a particular marriage null?
    * How can a couple live together for years and then have their marriage annulled?
    * If the parents are granted an annulment, does that make their children illegitimate?
    * What is the Pauline privilege?
    * What happens when a marriage is convalidated?

With the huge number of divorces today, there is a great need for people to have the information this booklet contains. It’s meant to be sold both as individual copies (for people who need annulments, their friends and family members, those who want to help them) and in bulk so that people can place them in their parish literature racks, so that pastors and parish workers can keep a stack of them onhand to give to people, so that they can be given to folks taking RCIA (whether they themselves need an annulment or not, just so they’ll have a basic understanding of the concept), etc.

Bulk ordering will be available online soon, but to verify that you want to order them in bulk (or even if you only need a single copy for someone)

GET YOUR COPY NOW.

Bear in mind that this is only a booklet and can only give brief answers, so if you’re already past the booklet stage and are ready to tear into a book-length treatment of the subject, the HANDS DOWN BEST ONE THERE EVER HAS BEEN is

THIS ONE RIGHT HERE. GET IT!

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

7 thoughts on “New Annulments Booklet”

  4. St. Gimp: No, none of the secret projects are books or booklets. Wouldn’t keep them secret if that’s all they were.
    Anon: No, that concept–to the extent it has any legitimacy–is too sensitive and complex to cover in an introductory booklet. It would confuse the reader and send them the wrong signals, likely leading to gravely defective pastoral situations.

  6. Yes, it does have an imprimatur. We knew this would be important for the marketing of the booklet.

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