Vatican City, 22 September 2014 (VIS) –
The Holy See Press Office today issued the following communique:
“On 27 August 2014, the Holy Father
decided to institute a special Commission to study the reform of the
canonical marriage annulment process.
The Commission will be chaired by Msgr.
Pio Vito Pinto, dean of the tribunal of the Roman Rota, and will be
composed of the following members: Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio,
president of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts; Msgr. Luis
Francisco Ladario, secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of
the Faith; Bishop Dimitri Salachas, Apostolic Exarch of the Greek
Byzantine Catholic Church; Msgrs. Maurice Monier, Leo Xavier Michael
Arokiaraj and Alejandro W. Bunge, prelate auditors of the Tribunal of
the Roman Rota; the Rev. Fr. Nikolaus Schoch, O.F.M., substitute
promotor of Justice of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic
Signatura; Fr. Konstanc Miroslav Adam, O.P., rector of the Pontifical
University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum); Fr. Jorge Horta
Espinoza, O.F.M., Dean of the Faculty of Canon Law of the Pontifical
University Antonianum; and Prof. Paolo Moneta, formerly professor of
Canon Law at the University of Pisa.
The work of the Special Commission will
begin as soon as possible and will focus on the preparation of a
proposal for the reform of the marriage annulment process, seeking to
simplify and streamline the procedure, while safeguarding the
principle of the indissoluble nature of marriage”.
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