Tribunal psychologist: "I could conceivably make a case for any marriage being null."

[JimG]

Tribunal psychologist: "I could conceivably make a case for any marriage being null." — Leila Miller

In September, I interviewed an annulment tribunal judge who suggested that my next book should be entitled, Does the Catholic Church Believe in Marriage Anymore? Today, I am publishing an interview with a female psychologist who worked in an American tribunal and who also sees many problems

www.leilamiller.net

 

[Irishmom2]

Interesting reading, Jim.

 

[tafan2]

Nothing in that interview surprises me at all, except the end when she says the tribunal process is finally being looked at more closely. She implies it might change for the better, I doubt it.

 

[acanonlawyer]

when she says the tribunal process is finally being looked at more closely

I suspect that she means that more people who are involved in it as Judges, Defenders, etc., are taking a different approach to how to carry it out, not that there are more changes to the process itself waiting in the wings (I know of no such proposals…whatever that is worth).

Dan

 

[Asinner]

I’ve heard it (rightly) said that the Church doesn’t always have answers for difficult situations. What that really refers to are situations that should never have existed in the first place. People tend to demand solutions from the Church after they fail to follow her precepts. What kind of twisted logic is this? What kind of demonic trick to think that you are owed something to eat when meanwhile you have cut down your fruit tree? To demand an answer to a conundrum that will be pleasing to you, when this situation never should have occurred in the first place?

Boom