Let's stop right there with your example of extreme circumstances. In today's Church, this young woman could take her case to a marriage tribunal board and plead her case. With that and fifty dollars, there's a good a chance she would be granted an annulment based on "someone wasn't mature enough to understand the full extent of what they were doing."
What Cardinal Kasper is proposing is far more encompassing as is the Orthodox Church's practice.
ebb tide:
Ok, so maybe the annulment process needs to be streamlined in these cases. Apparently, the annulment process in areas outside US is not applied the same way as some statistics show that a majority of the annulments in the Catholic world occur here in the United States. So what comes out of this Synod is a standardization of the annulment process.
Look, I don’t know what is going to happen and yes I know Cardinal Kasper proposed the Orthodox practice as an alternative. I would rather see what actually happens with the Synod than let theologians write the Catholic press and/or the secular press try to shape and project what is going to happen.