@SrDorcee @jdflynn It would be interesting to me in that so many previous marriages are rubber-stamp annulled due to lack of canonical form. If that isn’t a required, thus more marriages are valid, would the church be seen as stronger on marriage or harder? An example:
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@SrDorcee @jdflynn My family all baptized as infants. Left the church shortly after my baptism. We came back when I was a teenager so I’m fine, but my sister came back after she was in her second marriage. Her first lacked canonical form, so “easy” to convalidate.
@SrDorcee @jdflynn If canonical form didn’t matter, would she have grounds for one? I don’t know. Would this be the Church being stronger on marriage or would it out more people in the “divorced remarried” segment that is already pastorally problematic.
@SrDorcee @jdflynn I think canonical form, as handled now, isn’t ideal. I would be interested in exploring how to handle the situation of today without total abandonment of it. Allowing some flexibility seems interesting and worth investigating.