annulments

Started by spx, April 26, 2017, 02:39:40 PM

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MichaelNZ

Quote from: Michael Wilson on April 26, 2017, 07:18:10 PM
Quote from: Gardener on April 26, 2017, 04:51:27 PM
There are several Dioceses where the granting rate is like 30% or something, including Colorado Springs. Others are nearly 100% granted.

I read at one point that the Church in the U.S. Granted nearly 90% of the annulments in the Catholic Church.
Here is one article which states that the U.S. Still grants nearly 60% of the annulments of the Catholic Church, while only holding 6% of the world's Catholics; and that is after a steep plunge in annulments from their peak in 63,933 in 1991. That is before Francis had issued new guidelines last year to streamline the process and make it even easier to obtain an annulment.
http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/470/annulment_nation.aspx

In the same article, another interesting statistic, nearly 100% of the cases brought to the court are decided in favor on nullity:
QuoteOf all the nations of the world in which such trials take place, only in Burkina Faso, Eritrea, Malawi, Uganda, and Vietnam do 50 percent or more of cases result in rulings against nullity. Most of the world's nations with high numbers of annulments decide 93-97 percent of sentences in favor of nullity, with Canada (at 99.5 percent) and Australia (at 98 percent) having particularly high affirmative sentence rates and Germany (at 82 percent) and Poland (at 79.5 percent) relatively low ones.

Any statistics on New Zealand? I'm currently waiting for an annulment here, but the circumstances surrounding the marriage are quite different than most annulments.