He could no more legitimately do that than he could relax the Ten Commandments, which is really what he's trying to do (see the Sixth Commandment).
The juridical term annulment used for marriages means that the marriage that had been celebrated, recognized, and lasted for some time actually was not valid. This is an extremely grave sentence that cannot be given superficially for several reasons:
The union had been celebrated by the parties according to all the Catholic requirements, before God, and witnessed by the representative of His Church.
The union had been accepted by society as a true marriage, which means that the couple was known for living an honest conjugal life, and not in illicit concubinage.
The stability of the family life, principally of the wife and children, had been guaranteed by the Catholic certainty that the matrimonial bond would never be broken.
These characteristics of the Catholic marriage are thrown out the window when an annulment is issued: the vows declared before God and the Church are considered void; the union is declared illegitimate, equivalent to a concubinage, and finally, the family life is completely broken with all the psychological and social consequences this entails. It is indeed a sentence disruptive of the life of the family and indirectly of all social life.
It is evident that to issue such a sentence, a tribunal must have very serious reasons and only do so very rarely.
Are Present Day Annulments To Be Taken Seriously?
And you want to "relax" the procedure?
When I’m talking about streamlining procedures I am talking about 6 months to a year to finalize an annulment, the length of time the priest told me and wife it was going to take when she put in for hers. It took almost two years. All it was was red-tape. I am not talking about the requirements of the annulment process.