Pope sacks official who sold annulments

Pope Francis disclosed that he had sacked a church court official who had been caught offering to facilitate marriage annulments for cash. The shock revelation came in candid remarks to students attending a course at the Roman Rota tribunal, the equivalent of the Supreme Court for canon law, the body of Church rules. “There have been public scandals. Some time ago, I had to dismiss from a tribunal someone who was saying ‘for 10,000 dollars I will do both the civil and the ecclesiastical procedure’,” the 78-year-old pope said.

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