Le Forum Catholique

If it is true, in fact, that a great number of the currently contracted marriages are null and void, this fact is caused by the insufficient taking of precautions when the candidates to holy matrimony are received in order to ensure their consent. In fact, the affirmation that 80% of currently celebrated marriages are null and void - an affirmation that is attributed to pope Francis, who underlined that numerous annulments were granted by the Buenos Aires ecclesiastical courts - should obviously lead to a greater "rigorism": it would be necessary to refuse the celebration of the sacrament of marriage to 80% of those who ask for it and admit only those 20% considered "worthy"! Because to keep celebrating marriages that we affirm are worthless, because they are afterwards declared null and void with a summary procedure as soon as difficulties arise between the spouses, is to mock the sacrament and scandalize those who receive it.