The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2015/09/pope-fra ... nnulments/

... After reading through the new rules and after reading the interventions of the presenters at the presser this morning, and after talking with two trusted canonists by phone and after reading a few reactions online, I have to take seriously the summation point made by the canonist Kurt Martens, professor of Canon Law at the Catholic University of America. He was cited in today’s WaPo. Martens said that essentially the Church is providing a path that looks like the Catholic version of no-fault divorce. ...

BTW… in today’s L’Osservatore Romano, Msgr. Pinto (head of the commission who put this together) has argued that this is a reform of mercy for “the poor”, and the “the poor” are the divorced and remarried.

PS: I wonder if anyone will notice that this procedure will probably favor men who dump their wives and kids for a younger model.

One of the comments in that blog reads:

It is very hard in my mind to distinguish this new process from ecclesiastical divorce in the Orthodox Church. As a convert I feel this weakens the Catholic Church’s apologetics when it comes to faith and morals. I know many ex Episcopalians / Anglicans like myself who chose Rome over Constantinople despite the liturgical and other insanity because of the Catholic Church’s defense of the moral law. In many ways I feel like this is a concession saying the Orthodox were right all along.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act ... t-process/

It does sound much the same to me as well and of course open to abuse by bishops who just want to get the cases off their desks so rubber stamp the declarations of nullity.

I can't help feeling that behind the scenes this is part of the negotiations for unity between (Vatican II) Roman Catholicism and (World) Orthodoxy. I remember Pope Francis also said he was open to changing the date of Easter to the Orthodox one for the sake of unity. Something about these recent events really disturbs me, it's almost like that union will be the key step towards the One World Religion that will try to utterly wipe out the True Faith.

Write never "Pope Francis" but always Bergoglio alias Francis, this banned layman and apostate from a l l Christian Faith ! This is the truth.

http://www.novusordowatch.org/wire/#.VfUxapsWO4v
A Revolution in his environnement himself is in preparation against Bergoglio alias Francis, this apostate from all Christian Faith.

Have to check your link, Archimandrite. Probably the latest horrors by this man are detailed there.

I was not following this annulment change, though I saw headlines about it.

The part about the dumping of wives and children for younger model struck a chord - as it's happening ALL the time in the Western world at large. Now even Catholic families may suffer from this bad syndrome of disappearing husband and father.

Interesting comment made : more deep than the usual comment on a mainstream media outlet blog.

Justin, that's news to me about Francis offering to change to the Orthodox Pascha date !

Is there any further discussion of him meeting Patriarch Kirill in person ?