Canonist: Pope took a ‘significant step back’ from annulment reform in Rota speech

[slMike]

**Canonist: Pope took a ‘significant step back’ from annulment reform in Rota speech **

*John-Henry Westen *

ROME, January 27, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) *– In an address Friday to the Roman Rota, the Vatican court that deals with marriage annulment cases, Pope Francis has “taken a significant step back” from his annulment reform, according to canonist Ed Peters.

One controversial aspect of the reform, published as a decree in August 2015, was the inclusion of “lack of faith” as one of the grounds for a possible fast tracked annulment…

 

[slMike]

Pope’s Address to Tribunal of Roman Rota

 

[dans0622]

I’d say that the Pope’s remarks to the Rota can help in implementing/interpreting the “annulment reform” as well as the entirety of the law on marriage and nullity but…the “reform” still is what it is.

Dan