The matter at issue was that his attitude was: “Sure I did it. Why is this even a problem?” His attitude betrayed that he simply had no conception of what a Christian marriage was when he took his vows.
If this was correct, then protestant marriages in a church which professes that divorce is OK would be automatically null, which, I can tell you, is not the case.
Look, I respect what the Church is trying to accomplish with the annulment process. However, the enormous demand for annulments has created a new situation, which the Church in the US has tried to manage by making divorced and remarried persons go through the process, but with virtual certainty that the annulment will be granted, as long as the plaintiff professes defective intent and unless doing so would cause scandal.
If the only annulments that were granted were for judirically null marriages, tens of thousands of Catholic and would-be Catholic families would be denied the sacrament. If current practice keeps up, the cynicism and hypocrisy involved will corrupt the persons involved.
IF the pope and the bishops want to get rid of the status quo, can you blame them?