If you got married in church, and resent the very day you said ‘I do’, you can go back to the same church to say ‘hang on there, actually, I don’t’.

At least if you live in Switzerland.

Apparently Swiss couples are so keen to end their marriages in the same place where they started that moves are now being made to allow them to get divorced in church, with an official divorce ceremony.

Frank Worbs, a Pastor from Zurich, is working on an official liturgy. He said:

A ritual or symbolic process includes meetings with the priest beforehand in the same way that married couples have a meeting.

It helps divorced people to get over the separation and achieve definite closure. Sometimes there is no other solution but to separate.

In such situations it is important to make the divorce as amicable as possible for the couple so that they can begin a new chapter in their lives. Other members of the family can also take part and come to terms with things more easily.

This will be great if it comes off because there are so many people opposed to the whole concept of divorce on religious grounds that getting divorced in church will really annoy them.

I’m all for that.

Clive Bellmore