Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas, is making news because he knows that so-called expert opinions can be biased or based on insufficient evidence. Do Catholic diocesan annulment tribunals also know this? One participant in Mary’s Advocates email group offers her view of what is really going on in annulment Tribunals.

Joe McClane, host of The Station of the Cross’ “The Catholic Take” invited me on his show on July 2. We talked about bishops’ requirement for a civil divorce prior to any annulment investigation. I publicized this situation recently on Mary’s Advocates’ “Bishops Respond: Plea to Drop their Divorce Mandate” Watch  “The Catholic Take” episode […]

Seasoned licensed marriage and family therapist, Doug Hinderer, had me as a guest on his Relevant Radio show “Marriage Unhindered” on June 30, 2025.  We talked about no-fault divorce in the United States, Church teaching on divorce, and the challenge of annulments. Hear Full Broadcast HERE Highlights The State thinks you’re a control freak if […]

Mark Feliz and I spoke with “Marie” who shared her annulment journey.  Marie is upholding the validity of her marriage against an accusation of nullity made by her husband. After 12 years of marriage, Marie admitted to her husband that she had gotten herself entangled in an adulterous relationship. We discussed the Church’s canon law [...]

I was joined by separated faithful co-host Mark Feliz, to hear anonymous guest (Raymond) discuss his experience as an annulment defendant after being abandoned by his wife.  According to Catholic doctrine, the Church “never ceases to endeavor to bring about a reconciliation, and never despairs of doing so” (Pope Leo XIII, Arcanum).  Hear what is [...]

… to support Mary’s Advocates’ position, I’m publishing excerpts from a 2011 decision issued by the appellate Tribunal of the Roman Rota. … I emphasize that the Roman Rota—in their selected sentences shared in their 2018 volume—teaches the world that a tribunal could issue a sentence deciding that “cohabitation is to be restored.”