Catholic annulment is a complicated process, but the principles at work are scripturally based applications of sacramental theology to individual situations and instances of human vice.

00:00 How the Bible understands marriage
01:02 Why the Catholic Church forbids divorce
01:51 What is an annulment?
03:26 Reasons an annulment might be granted
05:51 How dispensations from Canon Law work
07:01 The nullity process
07:40 How the marriage tribunal works
09:22 Judgment of the tribunal

Sources:
Matthew 19: [ Ссылка ]

The Code of Canon Law: [ Ссылка ]
Referenced canons are: 1060, 1055-1057, 1101, 1084, 1097-1098, 1091-1092, 1086, 1125, 1671-1673, 1683-1687, and 1400-1670 in general.

Catholic Diocese Map SVG courtesy of [ Ссылка ]

Catechism #1661 (The Graces of Marriage): [ Ссылка ]

Catechism #2207: [ Ссылка ]

Diocese of Indianapolis (Marriage Tribunal): [ Ссылка ]

Diocese of Sacramento (Explanation of the reasons for nullity): [ Ссылка ]

Affinity Contracted By Sponsors (Affinity through godparents etc): [ Ссылка ]

Disparity of Cult defined: [ Ссылка ]

Matthew 16: [ Ссылка ]

The Council of Trent: [ Ссылка ]

Diocese of Winona-Rochester Libellus (Example of a Libellus): [ Ссылка ]

Canon Law Center Glossary of Canonical Terms: [ Ссылка ]

Diocese of Raleigh (Explanation of what a tribunal is): [ Ссылка ]

Diocese of Hawaii (Cited for some contextual info I needed to understand some of the roles): [ Ссылка ]

Vatican Glossary: [ Ссылка ]

Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus (The Bishops is required in expedited cases): [ Ссылка ]

The USCCB approves the use of single judges instead of triplicate judges for nullity cases, the default is 3 according to canon 1425: [ Ссылка ]

Diocese of Wilmington Q&A (the decision can be appealed to Rome): [ Ссылка ]

Honestly the wikipedia page for this super helpful if you want to get a big list of big reasons or remind yourself of one: [ Ссылка ]

Justice and Mercy have met’s introduction was helpful for understanding the shorter process for nullity, but I ended up not going into detail on it in the actual video: [ Ссылка ]

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