Church Grants 90% of Annulment Requests
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Roman Catholic marriage tribunals, which administer the process for granting marriage annulments, approved more than 90% of the nearly 40,000 cases that came before them last year.
According to the Canon Law Society of America, the tribunals decided 38,448 cases in 1991.
The number of cases decided was up 3.7% over 1990.
More than 8,500 cases involved mixed marriages between Catholics and non-Catholics, and 7,919 cases concerned marriages in which neither spouse was Catholic. In those cases, annulments were sought by persons either intending to enter the Roman Catholic Church or to marry a Catholic.
The society said 48,029 petitions were submitted for annulments in 1991, and 43,321 cases were accepted for trial, but not all were decided in 1991.
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