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Joan Frawley says that the new annulment rules may result in a trickle --- not a stampede --- offering the Diocese of Madison as an example.

The big take-away may be that now it's all going to be on the shoulders of the bishops, themselves, personally.

1 posted on 09/16/2015 3:19:14 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o

To: verga

Bump

2 posted on 09/16/2015 3:29:36 PM PDT by verga (I might as well be playng chess with pigeons.)

To: Mrs. Don-o

1. Both spouses have to petition for it together, or if not, then the other party must at least consent to it.

Sorry. It still sounds like uncontested "catholic divorce".

3 posted on 09/16/2015 3:52:27 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)

To: Mrs. Don-o; verga

Who are you going to believe? Joan Desmond or the Dean of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota, Msgr. Pio Vito Pinto?

4 posted on 09/16/2015 4:06:12 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)

To: Mrs. Don-o; verga; piusv; BlatherNaut

Socci: With Papally-Mandated "Catholic Divorce" destroying a Sacrament, Schism Looms Large on the Catholic Horizon

After 2000 years, Divorce is Enforced in the Church -- and a Schism Looms Larger than Ever

10 posted on 09/16/2015 5:09:39 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)

To: Mrs. Don-o

23 posted on 09/16/2015 6:59:48 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)

To: Mrs. Don-o

If the marriage was consummated, does annulment mean it never happened?

31 posted on 09/17/2015 3:23:41 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)

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