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To: Bayard
No, it's a terrible change because of the following:

"No recourse is allowed before the Roman Rota for a Nova Causae Propositio (N.C.P.), after one of the parties has contracted a new canonical marriage, unless the injustice of the decision is manifestly established."

In other words, if the petitioner wins an annulment, he can rush into a new "marriage", even within the diocese that granted the annulment, and thus void any further attempts by respondent for further appeals.

Francis is a very slick card player. Don't let him fool you.

17 posted on 03/13/2016 4:52:54 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide
In other words, if the petitioner wins an annulment, he can rush into a new "marriage", even within the diocese that granted the annulment, and thus void any further attempts by respondent for further appeals.

Perhaps you don't know anything about the process. But this means that there actually still is a process for seeking redress from the Roman Rota for cases of manifest injustice. And that would still be the case after the respondent had been given time, and free counsel, to make an appeal to a second instance court to the nearest Archdiocese and had his or her appeal rejected. So by this time there has been a tribunal from two separate diocese involved. If there was a manifest injustice involved it would have been cleared up in an appeal to the nearest metropolitan tribunal. If it is still manifestly unjust in its process which must be open and known between the two parties, then there can be a cause for appeal.

This protects petitioners from harassment and the rota from those making multiple fraudulent appeals. This prevents acts of malice on either the respondent or petitioner side. Don't believe me? Look up civil divorce cases. To allow a person to make appeal after appeal gives people with malicious intent too much power.

Given the increased requirement that the respondent has access to legal counsel which is free, and must be contacted by the diocese, and have a chance to be fully informed from its very beginning, I hardly see how there is some kind of injustice against truth going on.

19 posted on 03/13/2016 6:20:24 PM PDT by Bayard
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