“Catholic Divorce” careless annulments (Cardinal Burke)

Cardinal Raymond Burke gave the presentation for the 11th Annual James H. Provost Memorial Lecture at The Catholic University of America, March 2014. Full Video.

He teaches, “In the common and popular perception, and not without reason, the process began to be called “catholic divorce.” […] “The poor quality of many first instance sentences examined by the Signatura […]”

Cardinal Raymond Burke was the Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Signatura from 2008 – 2014. He served as the Defender of the Bond at the Signatura from 1989 -1994. He wrote his JCD dissertation on lack of discretion of judgment because of schizophrenia: doctrine and recent rotal jurisprudence.