[defconw]

It will never happen. Canon law is very clear on the procedure and we all know what happens when you get a bunch of lawyers in a room. Second part is true to a point. I think some pastors are pressured into allowing marriages. It really depends on the Pre-Cana. I know my Parish in Indiana, assigned mentoring couples to people seeking to marry and they stayed in touch with them during the early years if they could.

If you are a Catholic, you understand that in such a large organization, not everyone can be counted on to cross ever T and dot every I. But they try.

[scouter]

It will never happen. Canon law is very clear on the procedure and we all know what happens when you get a bunch of lawyers in a room.

I hope you're right. I've always considered Cardinal Collins to be fairly left wing, and I would have expected him to be in favor of the "Kasper Doctrine". I'm glad to see he's not, and that other prominent cardinals and bishops were not, either. It does give me some hope that the synod will not go off the rails. Nevertheless... while canon law is clear, it can be changed on the whim of the pope, and this pope is prone to whims.