Streamline annulments: Vatican monsignor delivers the gentle FrancisMercy news to the suffering peoples
The AP tells the world’s version of the new streamlined FrancisChurch annulments – one-stop family destruction, death of the Faith, and generations of Hell in just 45 quick days! (Catch this frightening photo of the Vatican announcement.)
The modern ‘catholic’ annulment charade was already a terrible scandal, but there are very few people in the world who do not understand that ‘catholic’ annulments are also a fraud. That’s why they all call them ‘catholic divorces.’ Because they are, and people know the emasculated Church is just lying about them.
These sacred unions the AmChurch keeps declaring ‘null’ were not null. They were marriages. To the Children they produced, they were parents. You’re not too immature when you’re thirty-five. You weren’t such a complete idiot that you didn’t know what you were doing.
In the FrancisGospel broken marriages are just mercy for women and children, so why not increase the mercy by making annulments simple formalities. But these cheap annulments don’t actually declare anything true. Once again they’re just using Christ’s Church to look the other way at sin and call it ‘mercy.’ That’s FrancisMercy, not God’s. FrancisMercy hurts, a lot.
Pope Francis radically reformed the process for annulling marriages Tuesday, overhauling 300 years of church practice by creating a new fast-track annulment and doing away with an automatic appeal that often slowed the process down.
Three hundred years? Try thousands. It’s only in the past 50 years that they started handing out mass-produced fraudulent annulments. Do you think God thinks that all these Church-wrecked marriages were never valid? A good friend of mine got an annulment after fifteen years and five kids. His wife was a notorious cheat, but they were a family once – a sad one. Now they’re three or four sadder ones. Thank you newChurch! Problem solved.
Oh, but it’s complicated, and what about the abuse, the conflict, and neglect? Marriage IS abuse, conflict, and neglect. That’s the point.
The move, which came a week after he said he was letting all rank-and-file priests grant absolution to women who have had abortions, was further evidence of his desire to make the church more responsive to the needs of ordinary faithful.
What was it responding to before, the Dalai Lama?
The new law on annulments goes into effect Dec. 8, the start of Francis’s Holy Year of Mercy, a yearlong jubilee during which the pope hopes to emphasize the merciful side of the church. It will speed up and simplify the annulment process by placing the onus squarely on bishops around the world to determine when a fundamental flaw has made a marriage invalid.
A Catholic needs a church annulment to remarry in the church, and a divorced Catholic who remarries civilly without one is considered an adulterer living in sin and is forbidden from receiving Communion.
The Communion issue is at the center of debate at the upcoming synod of bishops, a three-week meeting that gets underway in October. Progressive bishops favor a process by which these Catholics could eventually have access to the sacrament if they repent; conservatives say there can be no such wiggle room and that church teaching is clear that a marriage is indissoluble.
Catholics have long complained that it can take years to get an annulment, if they can get one at all. Costs can reach into the hundreds or thousands of dollars for legal and tribunal fees, though some dioceses have waived their fees.
“With this fundamental law, Francis has now launched the true start of his reform,” said Monsignor Pio Vito Pinto, the head of the Roman Rota, the church’s marriage court. “He is putting the poor at the center — that is the divorced, remarried who have been held at arms’ length — and asking for bishops to have a true change of heart.”
Reasons for granting annulments vary, including that the couple never intended the marriage to last or that one spouse didn’t want children.
The new law also says that “lack of faith” can also be grounds for an annulment, conforming to the belief of Francis and Pope Benedict XVI before him that a sacramental marriage celebrated without the faith isn’t really a marriage at all.
Francis’ biggest reform involves the new fast-track procedure, which will be handled by the local bishop and can be used when both spouses request an annulment or don’t oppose it.
This is going to shred the procedure so that it’s now completely at the discretion of each bishop with a ‘wink wink’ from Rome. Most bishops are weasels and the rest will be pressured to conform. Goodbye marriage. Thank you new Pope of the family. He hasn’t even gotten to the October Synod yet.
Paul VI ruined the Church by suppressing the Ancient Mass and bending every Church law beyond recognition. Now Francis has arrived to wreck what’s left and bulldozer the rubble. Hey, it’s all for the people!
