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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PROVIDENCE — Changes to the annulment process in the Catholic Church will have an effect here in Southern New England. Pope Francis has issued a new law to simplify the process and make it faster. The ...

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 ...

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 ...