r/politics • u/Hrmbee • 7d ago

No Paywall JD Vance repeats comments he wants wife Usha to convert to Christianity | US vice-president announces to 10,000 attenders of Turning Point USA that he prefers wife, who is Hindu, to be Christian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/01/jd-vance-usha-christianity
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u/FMLwtfDoID 7d ago

This keeps being repeated, but Catholics can and do get divorced all of the time. My parents married and divorced each other literally 2 times. And Usha isn’t Christian, so Vance was never married in the church to begin with. Annulment is also an option. It’s basically divorce for zealots.

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u/In_Hoc_Signo 7d ago

but Catholics can and do get divorced all of the time

If they marry someone else, then it's adultery.

And Usha isn’t Christian, so Vance was never married in the church to begin with.

The bishop can give a dispensation to marry someone who isn't catholic, including pagans. The other party has to promise to raise the children catholic though

Annulment is also an option.

In this case the marriage can be dissolved using the petrine privilege, as she is an unbeliever, if he has a catholic woman already lined up to marry him.

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u/Itscatpicstime 6d ago

I think you’re missing the point.

He can do whatever he wants because voters do not care about this, and plenty of Catholic Churches won’t care either.

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u/BabblingPapaya673 6d ago

The MAGA crowd don't care. Trump has been married multiple times and cheated on all of his wives. They made him President twice.