Yes. The Catholic Church can "annul" any marriage. The marriage must first be presented to the marriage tribunal through your local diocese. After the tribunal concludes their investigation and, having found sufficient evidence that the marriage was indeed invalid, a "Decree of Nullity" will be issued.
This process can be lengthy and sometimes expensive.
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King Henry broke away from the Catholic Church because the Catholic Church would not annul his marriage to Katherine of Aragon, so that he could marry Anne Boelyn. That is how the Anglican Church was formed.
King Henry VIII Henry the VIII, because the Pope wouldn't annul his first marriage.
No, because it does not sanctify same sex marriages. They can not be and therefore there is nothing to annul.
King Henry VIII, after the Catholic Church rejected his bid to annul his marriage to Katherine of Aragorn, so that he could marry Anne Boelyn.
He started a new church, the church of England.Anglican Catholic Answer!Henry sought an annulment, not a divorce! Neither did he seek one from a ,'Catholic,' source, he sought one from a bishop of the Suburbicarian Church of Rome! This is that particular section of the Catholic Church that exists on the mainland of Italy and covers the three main Islands. It is only a part, or branch of the ancient Church.After the Emperor kept the pope in prison, Henry went to his own local,'Particular,' Church and asked his own Bishop, or Metropolitan for an annulment!
A civil marriage union that has never at any time been re-avowed in the Rites of the Catholic Church before an ordained Catholic priest would not be a marriage recognised by the Catholic Church. It would be considered a marriage 'outside' of the Church. Therefore it is unlikely that the Catholic Tribunal would see any requirement to apply for a Papal Dispensation to annul the marriage, because in the eyes of the Church there would be no marriage to annul. If the civil union, were later properly re-avowed in the Catholic Rite before an ordained Catholic priest, then any previous ceremonies are irrelevant to the Church and the Church would recognise the marriage. In that case an application to His Holiness, The Pope, could be made by the Tribunal on the couple's behalf, to annul their marriage. Not every application is successful.Whatever the position with the Church, a Decree Nisi Absolute (a civil divorce) would need to be obtained to legally and lawfully annul the marriage in civil law and this will not affect or change the position of the Church.Catholic AnswerUpon reading your question, it seems that you are using the term "blessed" to mean that the couple got married in front of a priest AFTER they had already been married in a civil ceremony. If the couple subsequently sought to have the marriage annulled, they would have to apply to the Tribunal. A Tribunal can only declare an invalid marriage null, they cannot annul a valid marriage. So the couple would have to prove that no valid marriage ever took place.
England officially broke ties with the Catholic church in 1529 when Henry VIII invoked parliament to enact statutes denying the pope any power or jurisdiction over the Church of England. He did this because of the papacy's refusal to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. This effectively made the Anglican church the national church of England.
When my divorced Catholic friend wished to remarry, she had to write to the pope asking him to annul her first marriage.He wanted to annul the marriage after she cheated on him with the hockey team.
Henry did not leave the catholic church. He merely broke away from the control of the Pope in Rome and set himself up as head of the English (catholic) church. He did this so that he could annul his marriage to Katherine of Aragon, which the Pope refused to do, and thus leave him free to marry Ann Boleyn.because he wanted a divorce from his wife for not giving him an heir.
The English Reformation occurred in the 16th century when King Henry VIII wanted to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon to marry Anne Boleyn. When the Pope refused to annul the marriage, Henry broke away from the Catholic Church and established the Church of England with himself as the head. This led to the dissolution of the monasteries and a shift towards Protestantism in England.
The Anglicans in Great Britain broke with the Catholic Church. Henry VIII had been unable to produce a male heir to the British throne with his wife Catherine of Aragon. He wanted to annul his marriage to her so he could marry another but the pope refuse to annul his original marriage. Henry then broke with Rome and formed the Church of England, naming himself as head of the Church in that country. He then, basically, granted himself a divorce and married a series of other women over the years, none of which produced a male offspring. He was, of course, excommunicated from the Catholic Church. A number of years of Catholic persecutions followed.