Posted on 01/27/2022 4:41:40 PM PST by ebb tide
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The promotion of justice, including in marriage tribunals, requires a “synodal spirit” of pastoral accompaniment, heartfelt listening and using “the right reasoning” in discernment, Pope Francis said.
This attitude of synodality, he said, “allows for bringing out the essential characteristics” of the judicial process, which is to be at the service of a justice that is inextricably linked to truth and the salvation of souls.
In fact, “any deliberate alteration or manipulation of the facts, aimed at obtaining a pragmatically desired result, is not permissible,” he said. This is a huge danger, he added.
The pope made his remarks during his annual meeting with members of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota, a Vatican court that deals mainly with appeals in marriage annulment cases.
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Pope Francis says half of marriages today are invalid. He's wrong.
And who even needs annulments when Bergoglio's Amoris Laetitia allows divorced and "remarried" Catholics (without annulments) to receive Holy Communion?
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Uhhh.. didn’t Francine do exactly that already?
Probably invalid
If couples are contracepting I might see an argument there about openness to life which can be grounds for invalid matrimony.
I’m unsure if the Pope isn’t just accidentally right in that statement though.
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