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Does the Catholic church consider my (now grown) children to be illegitimate?

Asked by AstroChuck (37609points) March 14th, 2010

I was married to my first wife between 1980 and 1986. The service was non-denominational. During this marriage my two oldest daughters were born. In 1987 I married my current wife. We eloped in Hawaii but came back to marry in the Catholic church. (My wife is Catholic.) But before they would marry us I had to seek an annulment of my first marriage through The Catholic church. This involved paperwork, some of which had to be filled out by my ex and her mother. I felt this was total crap and I didn’t want to do this; I mean, I had be married for six and a half years and had two children from that union! But I did so reluctantly as it meant a lot to my wife to be married in the Catholic church. Anyway, the church granted an “annulment” of my first marriage and ended up marrying us.
So if my first marriage never happened in the eyes of the Catholic church do they consider my two oldest kids bastards? How f***ed-up is that?:

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