ROME -- Pope Francis has made radical changes to the Catholic marriage annulment process, streamlining it in order to make it faster, easier and less expensive. In two legal church documents released ...

How are survivors of domestic violence treated by Catholic marriage tribunals, the diocesan courts that determine whether the sacramental bond of a marriage exists or not? Sadly, if domestic violence ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis radically reformed the Catholic Church's process for annulling marriages Tuesday, allowing for fast-track decisions and removing automatic appeals in a bid to speed up ...

I saw the headlines and went ballistic. “Pope Francis Seeks Easier Way for Catholics to End Marriages” “Pope Francis Simplifies Marriage Annulments with New Fast-track Process” There were others as ...

VATICAN CITY — The Holy See Press Office has announced that two motu proprio will be released on Tuesday, both of which concern the reform of the process for the declaration of the nullity of marriage ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — An announcement by Pope Francis on Tuesday that he intends to streamline the annulment process for Roman Catholics has pleased some Angelenos who believe it could help keep ...

Pope Francis said the church's marriage annulment process should be more efficient and perhaps even free of charge, and he decried any attempts to exploit it for profit. "Some procedures are so long ...

One of the Vatican’s top canon lawyers at the Synod of Bishops on the Family says the current process for the annulment of marriages in the Catholic Church could be streamlined and expanded to the ...

No clear guidance emerged from last fall’s Synod of Bishops on the Family for divorced and remarried Catholics who wish to receive holy Communion. Cardinal Sean O’Malley, O.F.M.Cap., among others, has ...

Pope Francis on Tuesday announced sweeping reforms to the Catholic Church’s marriage annulment process, changes that are designed to speed up and simplify the often lengthy procedure. The changes, ...

(RNS) The streamlined marriage annulment procedures unveiled by the Vatican are aimed at simplifying what is often a tedious gauntlet of red tape. But it’s not clear how much effect the reforms ...