In this article, Edward Peters defends tribunal integrity and refutes any claim of laxity on its part. A Decree of nullity is the actual name of the process used to nullify broken marriages.
Dave Armstrong expresses his interpretation of the differences between annulment and divorce showing that annulment establishes that a marital status never existed whereas divorce terminates a legal status.
Clarence J. Hettinger, after giving a bit of background on annulment, traces the history of change from a paucity of annulements to a comparative avalanche.
Articles include: Annulment; Did the Second Vatican Council Change The Church's Understanding of Marriage? Is Marriage Still Permanent? The Annulment Procedure. Spirituality for Today, June, 1997
Thomas Droleskey re-inforces the Church's teaching on the matter of annulment, divorce and remarriage, which states that anyone in any of these conditions who engages in any form of sexual relations outside of marriage commits adultery and can not receive the Eucharist.
Properly called a Decree of Nullity, it is a finding by a Church tribunal that, on the day vows were exchanged, at least some essential element for a valid marriage was lacking, such as, one of the parties did not intend lifelong fidelity to the other person or excluded having children entirely.
