That it is common sufficient you to cannon laws will bring intricate recommendations towards the what a beneficial tribunal is supposed to create whenever a respondent determines to ignore the fresh summons mentioned above. Cannon 1592.step 1 informs us when an excellent respondent is summoned but goes wrong to appear, and will not provide the courtroom with a sufficient cause for it failure, the new courtroom should be to point out that person missing, therefore the situation is always to proceed to this new decisive judgment.

You don’t need a degree in canon law to appreciate that this is only common sense. After all, there are several parties to a marriage-nullity case-and if one party doesn’t feel like cooperating, that doesn’t mean justice is automatically going to be denied to the other! So the marriage tribunal will simply proceed without any input from the respondent. It will base its decision on the evidence collected from the petitioner and his witnesses. So what Craig’s pastor and the tribunal official told him is correct. If Craig can show that (for example) his own consent at the time of the wedding was defective-a concept that has been discussed numerous times here in this space, in “Contraception and Marriage Validity” and “Canon Law and Fraudulent ong many others-then the marriage is invalid regardless of whether his ex-wife submits her own evidence or not. (suite…)