ROME (RNS) Italy’s Catholic bishops have condemned a proposed law that is set to speed up divorce and do away with a three-year separation waiting period.
Legislation to allow consensual divorce after six months and 12 months in contested cases was passed overwhelmingly in the lower house of Parliament Thursday (May 29). It now heads to the Senate, where it is expected to be approved.
“I do not believe you can call this an achievement, much less define it as historic,” said Monsignor Nunzio Galantino, the secretary-general of the Italian Bishops’ Conference. “Speedy divorce will not help anyone.”
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