The late Pope John Paul II was staunchly opposed to easing the standards for obtaining marriage annulments, the dean of the Roman Rota has said.In an interview with the KAI news agency, Bishop Antoni Stankiewicz said that Pope John Paul always stressed the indissolubility of marriage in his messages to the Vatican tribunal, and insisted that Church jurists should make that principle the most important criterion for their judgments.
Bishop Stankiewicz told KAI that he fully agreed with the deceased Pontiff in supporting the permanence of marriage.
The Polish bishop said that it is dangerous to adopting lax standards in issuing decrees of nullity, since easy annulments suggest bad will and a lack of commitment to marriage.
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