VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis radically reformed the Catholic Church's process for annulling marriages Tuesday, allowing for fast-track decisions and removing automatic appeals in a bid to speed up ...

ROME -- Pope Francis has made radical changes to the Catholic marriage annulment process, streamlining it in order to make it faster, easier and less expensive. In two legal church documents released ...

How are survivors of domestic violence treated by Catholic marriage tribunals, the diocesan courts that determine whether the sacramental bond of a marriage exists or not? Sadly, if domestic violence ...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis on Wednesday denounced the hardships Catholics can face when seeking marriage annulments, revealing he once fired an official who tried to charge thousands of dollars for ...

I saw the headlines and went ballistic. “Pope Francis Seeks Easier Way for Catholics to End Marriages” “Pope Francis Simplifies Marriage Annulments with New Fast-track Process” There were others as ...

Pope Francis will announce some changes to the way Catholics may gain a marriage annulment, the Vatican said Monday. Exactly how the process will be reformed is still unknown, but Francis is expected ...

Pope Francis said the church's marriage annulment process should be more efficient and perhaps even free of charge, and he decried any attempts to exploit it for profit. "Some procedures are so long ...

No clear guidance emerged from last fall’s Synod of Bishops on the Family for divorced and remarried Catholics who wish to receive holy Communion. Cardinal Sean O’Malley, O.F.M.Cap., among others, has ...

Pope Francis radically reformed the Catholic Church's process for annulling marriages Tuesday, allowing for fast-track decisions and removing automatic appeals in a bid to speed up and simplify the ...