We must remember that the Catholic Church did not invent marriage, God did. He made marriage between a man and woman and for life.

So, the Catholic Church is just faithful to the Lord’s will. The Catholic Church is practically the only Church that still obeys Christ on the indissolubility of marriage by a human person. The Pauline and Petrine privileges are not divorces because no human person is dissolving the marriage. The Church does not issue any decree of divorce!

On the other hand, almost all Christian denominations, as well as other religions, permit divorce, against God’s will and to clearly show that they are not the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church of Christ. The Catholic Church also recognises that there are people who enter marriage with the wrong intentions, not really intending to marry as God wishes, but just to have regular (sic!) occasions for sex, ending up contracepting for their own egoistic lust, or enter marriage temporarily until they get tired of their spouse.

In such a case, and in a rarer case of mental dysfunction where the person is simply incapable of making a lifelong commitment, the Church determines that no valid marriage occurred and issues a decree of nullity, or annulment.

It is not a divorce that breaks one marriage to allow another, but says there never was marriage at all.

Any other interpretation of the annulments given by the Catholic Church is just deceitful and devilish.