Restored: Helping Children of Divorce
Jul 14, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min · 20 segments
If your parents are divorced and seeking a Catholic annulment, it can feel confusing — and even scary. What is an annulment? Is it just “Catholic divorce”? Does it erase your parents’ marriage? And…
Anthony St. Louis-SanchezGuest
Joey PontarelliHost
So from what I hear you saying, the annulment process, which we're gonna get into in a second here, is not a Catholic divorce.
What divorce does is says that the relationship has come to an end, that for whatever reason we can't live together under the same roof, we can't make this relationship work, and so we're gonna put an end to this relationship.
But the Church has always taught that that does not do anything to affect that relation of husband and wife.
The state has no power to dissolve a marriage, to make a husband and a wife no longer be a husband and a wife.
It's, it's looping back around after that divorce, after the relationship has come to an end, and really asking those questions about what happened at the church? What happened when we were giving our consent? Were we capable of that? Were we thinking the right things? You know, that kind of thing.
And it's so fascinating what you said about the Church's history in kind of opposing civil divorce.
I don't know, maybe there's a better word to say about this, you know, saying that in the beginning, you know, this thing, divorce, wa- it was not so, and Moses basically allowed it because of the hardness of the hearts, you know, I'm paraphrasing.
So from what I hear you saying, the annulment process, which we're gonna get into in a second here, is not a Catholic divorce.
What divorce does is says that the relationship has come to an end, that for whatever reason we can't live together under the same roof, we can't make this relationship work, and so we're gonna put an end to this relationship.
But the Church has always taught that that does not do anything to affect that relation of husband and wife.
The state has no power to dissolve a marriage, to make a husband and a wife no longer be a husband and a wife.
It's, it's looping back around after that divorce, after the relationship has come to an end, and really asking those questions about what happened at the church? What happened when we were giving our consent? Were we capable of that? Were we thinking the right things? You know, that kind of thing.
And it's so fascinating what you said about the Church's history in kind of opposing civil divorce.
I don't know, maybe there's a better word to say about this, you know, saying that in the beginning, you know, this thing, divorce, wa- it was not so, and Moses basically allowed it because of the hardness of the hearts, you know, I'm paraphrasing.
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