Some of you may remember my rant about the Priest I wasn't all too sure about giving us a hard time.
WELL, all is not going well. The annulment still hasn't been processed, so today I called the military diocese and they informed me that the turn around time for a lack of form annulment is only ONE DAY, yep you heard me right, ONE DAY. The only thing that is required is signed affidavits of two witnesses, so as long as the witnesses get back quick this whole thing could be done in under 2 weeks.
I called the priest with this, what I THOUGHT was good news. He said absolutely not, we have to do the annulment through the diocese here where we live (EVEN THOUGH we are not members of it - we are active duty military which makes us members of the military diocese). And I said I didn't understand what the problem was, we knew the military would be quicker and we are getting down to the end of our time to get this done (wedding in 76 days!!) and he actually said to me "Because I'm the Priest and I make the rules".
SO I hung up on him. Called FI, and told him that this was it, I've reached my absolute BREAKING point and that man is not marrying us, no matter what. I think he saw it coming, he just said we'd find someone else.
But OF COURSE, the whole reason we are still with this priest is because there is no one else. I called to double check again and the base chaplain priest where we are getting married is going to be out of the country on the day that we get married.
I guess my question is, with this much time to go should I just give up and look for a justice of the peace? That makes me start crying.
We have started attending a new church, and I really enjoy the priests there, but I don't know any of them personally other than a quick handshake and thank you after mass, should I schedule an appointment with one of them to see if they think it is too late or if maybe they can do it?
The worst part is, we could get this annulment done and over with, but because our "Priest" refuses to sign it, we can't even send it in. How ridiculous is that??
I am sorry for all the screaming, but I am freaking out and I don't understand how this man is even a priest. One kind of silver lining for me is that I know that the Bishop here has been investigating his "charity donations" so hopefully they catch him, because I know something is going on with him.