SCRANTON -- Pope Francis announced drastic changes on Tuesday that will impact divorced Catholics seeking an annulment. An annulment is required to remarry in the church and fully take part in the ...

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 ...

Pope Francis attends a special audience with members of the Parish Evangelisation Cell System in Paul VI hall at the Vatican September 5, 2015. REUTERS/Tony Gentile By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com/AP) — Pope Francis radically reformed the Catholic Church's process for annulling marriages Tuesday, allowing for fast-track decisions and ...

Andrea M. Alonso and Kevin G. Faley of Morris Duffy Alonso & Faley explore the limited scope of a New York statute that requires spouses to remove religious barriers to remarriage prior to the ...

San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller welcomed news from the Vatican on Tuesday that the process of getting a Catholic annulment, the church’s declaration that a marriage was invalid, will ...

After his divorce and before he remarried in the Roman Catholic Church, Joseph DeCastra of Hoover, Ala., applied for an annulment and got it in less than a year. His was one of more than 59,000 U.S.

raises the question of an annulment. If she wants to marry again, within the Catholic Church, will she need one? And while we're at it, what do Catholics mean by the word "annulment" and how hard is ...

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It’s been a difficult week for me, this past week. I’ve had writer’s block that hasn’t been because of a lack of ideas to write about, but because my mind has been focused on other things. The big ...