Should the Catholic Church allow divorced and remarried to be re-admitted to communion? No, says Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican.
End of discussion.
The fact that even a Cardinal questions the response of the Head of the CDF sounds like the discussion isn’t over.
Nope. That’s not the end of discussion. The Vatican is looking at streamlining (rubber stamping) the annulment process to get around that little problem of adulterers receiving Holy Communion; it’s in one of the questions in the Pope’s survey.
No, it really isn't.
I have a prediction: The FORM of decrees of nullity will be preserved, and in certain exceptional cases they will be refused. The PRACTICE of decrees of nullity will be simplified and accelerated.
Divorced and remarried Catholics who obtain a simplified decree will be invited to return to the Eucharist (if they have not been so invited already).
Bishops, and especially pastors, are uncomfortable with current practice because it involves money and dishonesty. Attempts will be made to reduce the $$ that change hands and eliminate lying by making "failure of a marriage" evidence of nullity, or lack of sacramental nature of the bond.
Currently, non-sacramental "natural" marriages are very difficult to annul since the couple never claimed sacramental intent, whereas couples married in a Catholic rite can and do say that the sacrament was (obviously) not completed, using their subsequent behaviors as evidence.
The not-quite-underground annulment facilitation industry (books, websites, counselors, ghost authors, etc) makes clergy who know of its existence uncomfortable, and they would, I think, just as soon be rid of it.