Justice and Mercy Have Met: Pope Francis and the Reform of the Marriage Nullity Process Martens Kurt
Justice and Mercy Have Met: Pope Francis and the Reform of the Marriage Nullity Process Martens Kurt With the promulgation of the motu proprio Mitis iudex Dominus Iesus for the Latin Church and the…
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Justice and Mercy Have Met: Pope Francis and the Reform of the Marriage Nullity Process Martens Kurt
With the promulgation of the motu proprio Mitis iudex Dominus Iesus for the Latin Church and the motu proprio Mitis et misericors Iesus for the Eastern Catholic Churches, both dated August 15, 2015, Pope Francis addressed the calls during the Third Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (October 5-9, 2014) for a simplified procedure for the declaration of the nullity of marriages. The new procedural norms went into effect on December 8, 2015.New legislation always challenges first and foremost the practitioner: how is the new legislation to be understood and applied? Pope Francis introduced a briefer process to be conducted by the diocesan bishop and he simplified the current ordinary nullity process.
The School of Canon Law Immediately after the new law was made public, a number of articles on this new legislation were published in The Jurist.