LiveStream: Annulment Defendant’s Rights Trampled, June 13

I was joined by separated faithful co-host Mark Feliz, to hear anonymous guest (Raymond) discuss his experience as an annulment defendant after being abandoned by his wife.  According to Catholic doctrine, the Church “never ceases to endeavor to bring about a reconciliation, and never despairs of doing so” (Pope Leo XIII, Arcanum).  Hear what is really happening in the territories where our anonymous guest resides.

His local tribunal never presented him with anything signed by his wife, so Raymond raised the question on appeal of whether a real petition even existed. It took the intervention of the Supreme Tribunal of the Signatura to instruct the lower tribunal to give him his own copy of their decision. The local tribunal decided his wife was incapable of marriage, due to her grave lack of discretion of judgment concerning the essential obligations of marriage (canon 1095, 2°). Raymond appealed to the Tribunal of the Roman Rota, as he believes the lower Tribunal is incorrect.

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