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The reforms were proposed by a group of experts in matrimonial jurisprudence. [2] According to experts at the Vatican, they are the most expansive revision in matrimonial nullity jurisprudence in centuries. The reforms are a departure from the 18th-century matrimonial nullity reforms of the canonist Pope Benedict XIV. [1]
Petrine privilege, also known as the privilege of the faith or favor of the faith, is a ground recognized in Catholic canon law allowing for dissolution by the Pope of a valid natural marriage between a baptized and a non-baptized person for the sake of the salvation of the soul of someone who is thus enabled to marry in the Church.
On 15 August 2015 Pope Francis issued the motu proprio Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus, which amended twenty-one canons (1671–1691) to reform the process of determining matrimonial nullity. The document was made public on 8 September 2015. [25] [26]
Pope Francis expressed worries over the fact that probably "half of all marriages are null" [28] in the light of canon law. This observation was one of the reasons for calling an extraordinary synod of bishops on the family in October 2014. [29] Pope Francis later reformed the matrimonial nullity trial process in 2015.
Declaration of Nullity. Dignitas connubii; Matrimonial Nullity Trial Reforms of Pope Francis; Vetitum; Defender of the Bond; Impediments to Marriage. Affinity; Clandestinity; Impediment of crime; Disparity of cult; Ligamen; Public propriety; Matrimonial dispensation. Ratum sed non consummatum; Sanatio in radice; Natural marriage. Pauline ...
According to Cardinal Julián Herranz, then-president of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts which issued the instruction, the purpose of Dignitas connubii was to give the ministers of justice (tribunal officers) a practical and convenient guide for handling tribunal work in matrimonial nullity processes. [2]
In the canon law of the Catholic Church, a vetitum (Latin for "a prohibited thing") is a prohibition, in the form of a precept, imposed by an ecclesiastical judge on a particular individual, in connection with declaring the nullity of marriage, that prevents them from contracting another marriage, at least until the cause of the nullity of the ...
Declaration of Nullity. Dignitas connubii; Matrimonial Nullity Trial Reforms of Pope Francis; Vetitum; Defender of the Bond; Impediments to Marriage. Affinity; Clandestinity; Impediment of crime; Disparity of cult; Ligamen; Public propriety; Matrimonial dispensation. Ratum sed non consummatum; Sanatio in radice; Natural marriage. Pauline ...