The Marriage that never was: The Catholic Annulment Process Explained

Help me make more videos ➤ www.catechesisvids.com 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: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/19 The Code of Canon Law: https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iu... 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 https://catholicmaps.gumroad.com/ Catechism #1661 (The Graces of Marriage): http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/16... Catechism #2207: https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG001... Diocese of Indianapolis (Marriage Tribunal): https://tribunal.archindy.org/general... Diocese of Sacramento (Explanation of the reasons for nullity): https://www.scd.org/sites/default/fil... Affinity Contracted By Sponsors (Affinity through godparents etc): http://www.catholicapologetics.info/t... Disparity of Cult defined: https://www.catholic.com/qa/mixed-mar... Matthew 16: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew... The Council of Trent: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Canons... Diocese of Winona-Rochester Libellus (Example of a Libellus): https://www.dowr.org/img/LIBELLUS%20r... Canon Law Center Glossary of Canonical Terms: https://www.canonlawcentre.com/glossa... Diocese of Raleigh (Explanation of what a tribunal is): https://dioceseofraleigh.org/tribunal... Diocese of Hawaii (Cited for some contextual info I needed to understand some of the roles): https://www.catholichawaii.org/dioces... Vatican Glossary: https://www.vatican.va/resources/reso... Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus (The Bishops is required in expedited cases): https://www.vatican.va/content/france... The USCCB approves the use of single judges instead of triplicate judges for nullity cases, the default is 3 according to canon 1425: https://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-tea... Diocese of Wilmington Q&A (the decision can be appealed to Rome): https://www.cdow.org/fresh/wp-content... Honestly the wikipedia page for this super helpful if you want to get a big list of big reasons or remind yourself of one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declara... 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: https://www.amazon.com/Justice-Mercy-... Catechesis Vids is a production of my media company Six Candle Studio. Want me to make you a video? Learn more here ➤ https://www.sixcandle.com/