It’s interesting that Bergoglio is now going full-court press on cheap and easy annulments in Italy. He and his ilk seem to be operating on the idea that the Church’s hard teachings on the indissolubility of marriage have driven people away... and relaxing those teachings will bring them back. Like many of their assumptions, it’s false. I don’t know planet Bergoglio is living on, but here on earth there isn’t some huge cohort of divorced-and-remarried-and-fallen-away Catholics who are just chomping at the bit to rejoin just as soon as their first marriages are declared null and void.
Maria (Bergoglio's niece) recalls that she (or her intended?) applied for an annulment but was told by Argentine Church officials that her case would take four years. She reacted with a young-woman-in-love’s “pffft!” and announced that she would marry civilly. Per María, her uncle endorsed the idea.