This document was created due to the many problems which happen at the local tribunals. It wasn't created becasue things were going smoothly -- it was created because all kinds of shanangans which ocurr on the local level.
Many people have worked long hard hours, free of charge, to push baloney cases through tribunals.
Hopefully, this document will provide much needed guidance to make sure things run smoothly. But something tells me that things should be running smoothly already, but they aren't. If someone doesn't want to follow canon law, why would they follow this document?
The problem is systemic and the Vatican is spinning it's wheels trying to make 1095.2 work, but instead they should just drop 1095.2. Not that it isn't good, but it has provided the biggest loophole on earth for annulments. (Ie, it's a good law but highly abused.)
Better to close it off than to have unjust declarations of nullity. (Supposedly, section 209 of this document deals with this problem, but I suspect many tribunals will ignore it.)
I wouldn't say sink is "right on" about annulments -- I'd say he's 75% there. (I recall him NOT telling a woman who wasn't annuled not to get remarried...she did remarry as far as I know... That's not right on, is it? Jesus didn't think so..)
"I wouldn't say sink is "right on" about annulments -- I'd say he's 75% there. (I recall him NOT telling a woman who wasn't annuled not to get remarried...she did remarry as far as I know... That's not right on, is it? Jesus didn't think so..)"
I presume the comment to which you are referring occurred some time ago in another thread.
This being the case, I cannot comment on what I have not seen.
The fact that some marriages are not annuled shows that the process is not merely a rubber stamp.
The allegation that tribunals are influenced by contributions is (at least as far as the several folks I know who have been involved) total b.s.
There is much to criticize regarding the way our church is operated by the many false shephards who occupy positions of power and I would certainly concede the possibility of some tribunal irregularities in some dioceses. However, unlike the rampant liturgical abuse, pervert padres and bishops, and sorry state of Catholic education which I see continuously, I have seen no evidence that the tribunal process is intrinsically corrupt. Considering the lack of knowledge displayed by today's Catholics regarding marriage and the sacraments in general as well as the prevailing societal ethic regarding the procreation of children, I am surprised that there are not more annulments.