Pope says money at root of opposition to annulment reformVatican City — The potential loss of money and authority are often at the heart of the opposition against reforming the Catholic Church's annulment process, Pope Francis said.Departing from his prepared remarks during a Jan. 29 meeting with members of the Roman Rota, a tribunal handling mostly marriage cases, the pope said that after implementing reforms that streamlined annulments in 2015, he "received many letters" and encountered "so much resistance.""Almost all of them were lawyers who were losing clients. And therein lies the problem of money," he said. "In Spain, there...
