Religion and divorce

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Many countries in Europe, such as France, once prohibited divorce, as it is not condoned by the Catholic Church. Sometimes citizens travelled to other jurisdictions to obtain a divorce. No Catholic Church will remarry divorced persons, unless they previously have their marriage annulled, which is only possible in some circumstances. Most Christian churches treat divorce negatively; however, different Christian denominations vary in their toleration of it. The Catholic Church treats all consummated sacramental marriages as permanent during the life of the spouses, and therefore does not allow remarriage after a divorce if the other spouse still lives and the marriage has not been annulled. However, divorced Catholics are still welcome to participate fully in the life of the church so long as they have not remarried against church law, and the Catholic Church generally requires civil divorce or annulment procedures to have been completed before it will consider annulment cases.