Word: acta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...marriage is null, when it is null, an entirely different thing.... The Rota gives an average of eleven declarations of nullity a year, not a very heavy percentage, for a Catholic population of several hundred millions. (There were more than 175,000 divorces in the U.S. last year.) The Acta Apostolicae Sedis, the official gazette of the Vatican, duly reports the facts of cases before the Rota. They run about 50-50, rich and poor. So much for that. If the cases of nullity from coercion, outside of China and Africa, are more frequent among the wealthy than the poor...
During the year 1932 that omniscient but intentionally delayed Vatican publication, the Acta Apostolicae Sedis (Acts of the Apostolic See) may be expected to publish a full report of a decree of annulment* between the Duke of Marlborough and his first wife, the onetime Consuelo Vanderbilt, news of which leaked out through profane channels last week...