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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q: How do you proceed if the ex refuses to be a part of the annulment process? Are you stalled from moving forward? It seems ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — In the lead-up to October’s Ordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family, Cardinal Walter Kasper’s controversial pastoral proposal to allow some divorced-and-remarried Catholics to receive the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

VATICAN CITY – 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 ...