| Pope Francis Simplifies Rules for Roman Catholics to Get Marriage Annulments Kim Hjelmgaard - USA Today | |
| go to original September 9, 2015 |
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Pope Francis makes another change to Catholic guidelines by simplifying rules for marriage annulments. (Rome Reports)
Pope Francis has announced reforms aimed at simplifying and speeding up the Roman Catholic Church's procedure for marriage annulments. The new law involves a fast-track process that will be handled directly by bishops.
An annulment is a ruling that a marriage is not valid because certain conditions are not being met, such as free choice, psychological maturity and willingness to have children. The ruling is based on a finding that the marriage contract was fundamentally flawed from the start, and hence invalid in the eyes of the church.
Without an annulment, a Catholic who remarries is considered an adulterer and may not participate in some sacraments, including Holy Communion.
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