This is a prelude to de facto Catholic divorce. He’ll simply say that any couple who separates didn’t really understand marriage, so the marriage wasn’t valid. Automatic annulments will be no different than civil divorce. The Church does grant annulments which, for the average person, is a rigorous process and not granted as of right (unless you are a Kennedy).
Thank you. That is the obvious conclusion. Sad how few people have arrived at it.
The Church wants to bring divorced people into the fold. Annulments, communion, whatever it takes to haul them in. And the Devil take those pesky rules, laws, sacraments, moral absolutes. We need to be relevant, not reverent. Strive for tolerance, not holiness.
Understood!
But, here’s what I’m asking, and what Francis is admitting he can’t answer:
Given they COULD be annulled on request, are nearly all marriages invalid/null NOW? If not, why not?
“This is a prelude to de facto Catholic divorce.”
We’ve already seen the prelude to “de facto Catholic divorce” in the New Canon Law of 1983. Again, Francis is just pushing things even farther down the heretical hill.
http://www.traditioninaction.org/religious/k012rpAnnulments_Stretenovic.html
Exactly right. Abject destruction of marriage in the guise of his year of mercy.