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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.
In 2015, the process for declaring matrimonial nullity was amended by the matrimonial nullity trial reforms of Pope Francis, the broadest reforms to matrimonial nullity law in 300 years. [6] Prior to the reforms, a declaration of nullity could only be effective if it had been so declared by two tribunals at different levels of jurisdiction.
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]
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]
If a matrimonial celebration takes place (ratification) but the spouses have not yet engaged in intercourse (consummation), then the marriage is said to be a marriage ratum sed non consummatum. The Tribunal of the Roman Rota has exclusive competence to dispense from marriages ratum sed non consummatum , [ 2 ] which can only be granted for a ...
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 ...
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 ...