[Kansas58]

“What God has joined -—”

Guess what, you do not know who God joined and who He did not join.

The Church will recognize this truth. Current practice is hypocritical and contradictory. An annulment recognizes that no union existed. How often was that the case when no annulment was ever applied for?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This will make the Catholic Church stronger.

Smaller, but stronger.

The apostates will wind up forming their own religion, just like they always do.

[Tax-chick]

There’s been “dangerous pressure” regarding divorce since (at least) Henry VIII. There’s been “dangerous pressure” regarding contraception for getting on 100 years. Either we believe Christ, “On this Rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it,” or we don’t. Either we trust the Spirit working in the Church, or we don’t.

For the love of Pete, pun intended, the Church got through the Renaissance. She’ll get past the (fill in rude word for people whose entire life is oriented around genital pleasure), with the message of Christ intact.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Irrespective of whether this does or does not happen, I find it extremely offensive when someone who has been married for many years, and has children from that marriage, tries to get an annulment. It’s even more offensive if they are granted it. How can that not ever have been a legitimate marriage?

[SuziQ]

But the Church is not going to alter the Gospel, Pope Francis is not going to contradict Jesus, and those who suggest otherwise—perhaps in a misguided effort to increase the pressure for change—aren’t doing anyone any favors.

I think it's worse than that. I think some are agitating for these changes, which won't be made, simply to turn folks away from the Church, when the changes don't happen.