Another heretical doctrine and practice of the cultic catholic church (both of their priests and parishioners) is that of: "annulment" (away from and dissolving marriages).

The genuine and true Christian Church does not accept nor recognize that deviant and false doctrine and practice, particularly no mainstream and legitimate Protestant church body.

Nowhere in the entire New Testament is the doctrine or practice of "annulment" found. The concept and practice of annulment is a demonic concoction of the cultic catholic "church."

The doctrine and practice of "marriage" and "divorce" as possible entities - however - is acknowledged by the Lord's authentic Church.....although divorce is certainly discouraged though not entirely forbidden:

Mal 2:16 "For I hate divorce, says the LORD the God of Israel, and covering one's garment with violence, says the LORD of hosts. So take heed to yourselves and do not be faithless."
Mt 1:19 and her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly.
Mt 5:31 "It was also said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.'
Mt 19:3 And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, "Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?"
Mt 19:7 They said to him, "Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?"
Mt 19:8 He said to them, "For your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
Mr 10:2 And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"
Mr 10:4 They said, "Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to put her away."
1Co 7:10 To the married I give charge, not I but the Lord, that the wife should not separate from her husband
1Co 7:11 (but if she does, let her remain single or else be reconciled to her husband) --and that the husband should not divorce his wife.
1Co 7:12 To the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her.
1Co 7:13 If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him.

Instead of ceremoniously annulling marriages, should not the Church ceremoniously officiate divorces as they ceremoniously officiate marriages as with weddings? Why deprive pastors of the chance to divorce and instead relegate that to government divorce courts and divorce lawyers and social workers for any children?

The immentality (not mentality) of those clergy who arrange annulments for those divorcing is that "the marital union never took place" (whether there were children produced or not).

That of course flies in the face of Matthew chapter 19:

And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, "Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?"
4 He answered, "Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
5 and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?
6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder."
7 They said to him, "Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?"
8 He said to them, "For your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
9 And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for unchastity, and marries another, commits adultery."
10 The disciples said to him, "If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry."
11 But he said to them, "Not all men can receive this saying, but only those to whom it is given.
12 For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to receive this, let him receive it."

The saying goes that "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." In application, a Christian believer should never marry a disbeliever per:

2Co 6:14 Do not be mismated with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Those who are about to marry each other should obviously love each other (and read the entire Song of Solomon in the Old Testament for that one). When married they should be willing and ready to engage in all the denuding, fellatial, fondling, and genital insertion required (read Ezekiel chapters 16 and 23 for that) to (if possible) produce offspring in fulfillment of:

Mt 5:42 Give to him who begs from you, and do not refuse him who would borrow from you.
1Co 7:3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.
1Co 7:4 For the wife does not rule over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not rule over his own body, but the wife does.
1Co 7:5 Do not refuse one another except perhaps by agreement for a season, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, lest Satan tempt you through lack of self-control.
1Ti 2:15 Yet woman will be saved through bearing children, if she continues in faith and love and holiness, with modesty.
1Ti 5:14 So I would have younger women marry, bear children, manage the household, and give the enemy no cause to revile us.
Heb 12:25 See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less shall we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven.

Involved in successful dating, courtship, engagement, marriage, and prevention against divorce is required submission of the wife and subjection by the wife to her husband only (pertaining to sexual romance and erotic connections) and required love for the wife by her husband only (again, pertaining to sexual romance and sensual connections) in accord with:

Lu 10:20 Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you; but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."
Ro 13:1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
Ro 13:5 Therefore one must be subject, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience.
1Co 14:32 and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.
1Co 16:16 I urge you to be subject to such men and to every fellow worker and laborer.
Eph 5:21 Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Eph 5:22 Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord.
Eph 5:24 As the church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands.
Php 3:21 who will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power which enables him even to subject all things to himself.
Col 3:18 Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Heb 2:15 and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong bondage.
Heb 12:9 Besides this, we have had earthly fathers to discipline us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?
1Pe 2:13 Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme,
1Pe 3:22 who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to him.
1Pe 5:5 Likewise you that are younger be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

and for girlfriends and wives (in this day and age of satanic arrogant and impudent feminist-sexist chauvenism) to be submissive to their own boyfriends and husbands in view of:

Tit 2:5 to be sensible, chaste, domestic, kind, and submissive to their husbands, that the word of God may not be discredited.
Tit 2:9 Bid slaves to be submissive to their masters and to give satisfaction in every respect; they are not to be refractory,
Tit 3:1 Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for any honest work,
1Pe 2:18 Servants, be submissive to your masters with all respect, not only to the kind and gentle but also to the overbearing.
1Pe 3:1 Likewise you wives, be submissive to your husbands, so that some, though they do not obey the word, may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives,
1Pe 3:5 So once the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves and were submissive to their husbands,

Note that what was stated included "girlfriends" and "boyfriends." Such was done to accomodate those maritally joining themselves in common-law (concubinal) type marriages (with or without church or other wedding ceremonies to celebrate such). Understandably, common-law marital unions would be convenient for polygamous husbands to avoid legal charges of bigamy, keeping in mind the multiple-wife/multiple-concubines polygamy of notable patriarchs in the Old Testament such as Abraham, Jacob, David, Solomon, etc. and that Saint Paul restricted bishops and deacons from polygamy in light of:

1Ti 3:2 Now a bishop must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, dignified, hospitable, an apt teacher,
1Ti 3:12 Let deacons be the husband of one wife, and let them manage their children and their households well;

Why cultic catholics have concocted the strange and foreign concept and practice of annulment might be to try to self-absolve their clergy and their church from the blame of mismarring the wrong people together. It also might be an attempt to presume divorces are no-fault no-blame situations on the part of the separation-intended to try to win the favor of divorcing couples so that they continue on in that church and continue to fund the offering plates with operating-expenses-to-pay money. Heretics might even misuse, misinterpret, and misapply Scripture verses (such as Ephesians 5:24-33) to attempt to self-justify annulment with:

24 As the church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands.
25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
27 that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
28 Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
29 For no man ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ does the church,
30 because we are members of his body.
31 "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."
32 This mystery is a profound one, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church; 33 however, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

In either case, those who have contracted with the State as to being legally licensed and registered as "legally" married still have to then contract and register with the State as to being legally divorced, with all the miserable and regrettable ramifications and consequences thereof.