Word: divorceless
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...annulment plan simply see a distressing picture of Brazil's matrimonial affairs and propose a cure-legal annulments after five years of legal separation. Those who oppose divorce say that "if it is bad without divorce, it would be worse with it." The church points to relatively successful divorceless societies in Argentina and Colombia, remembers that it fought down divorce proposals in Brazil in 1937 and 1946. Bishop Vicente Scherer of the state of Rio Grande do Sul called for "prayers to God to take away from Brazil the calamity which threatens Christian families." Defeat seemed likely for Carneiro...