vatican/ Pope: Nullity of marriage should not be a bureaucratic responsbility

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Pope Francis received the participants in the Plenary Assembly of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura on Friday in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. The Apostolic Signatura is the highest court in the Catholic Church. In remarks to the participants, Pope Francis focused on the role of the Defender of the Bond: the lawyer who argues in favor of the validity of a marriage in annulment cases. "In his delicate task," said Pope Francis, "[the Defender of the Bond] is called to harmonise the prescriptions of the Code of Canon Law with the concrete situations of the Church and of society." Speaking broadly of the work of the Signatura, Pope Francis said, "Service to just ...