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Pope Francis suggests no-cost annulments in divorce cases
Josephine McKenna
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis raised the prospect of no-cost marriage annulments on Wednesday (Nov. 5) after revealing he had dismissed a church official for selling annulments for thousands of dollars, which he called a “public scandal.”
The pontiff made the shocking disclosure as he was addressing canon lawyers at the Vatican for a course on marriage dissolution conducted by the Roman Rota, the church’s highest court.
“We have to be careful that the procedure does not become some kind of business,” the pope said. “There have been public scandals.”
http://www.religionnews.com/2014/11/05/pope-francis-suggests-cost-annulments-divorce-cases/
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