Pope sacked church official for selling annulments
BY Agencies7 Nov 2014 12:13 AM GMT
Agencies7 Nov 2014 12:13 AM GMT
Pope Francis revealed on Thursday that he had sacked a church court official who had been caught offering to facilitate marriage annulments for cash. The revelation came in candid remarks to students attending a course at the Roman Rota tribunal, the body of Church rules. Telling his audience that he wanted decisions on annulments to be easier, quicker and cheaper to obtain for ordinary people, the pontiff made it clear he regards the current system as deeply flawed.‘We have to be very careful that the procedure does not become a kind of business - and I am not talking about something we know nothing about,’ the 78-year-old pope said.
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