The frequency of the heading “lack of discretion of judgment” and of other headings directly invo... more The frequency of the heading “lack of discretion of judgment” and of other headings directly involving psychopathology has increased steadily in recent years in causes of marriage nullity.1 At times, the increase has been so great that the socalled “psychological grounds” of nullity seem to have nearly replaced the other headings under which a person may accuse before the Church the nullity of his or her marriage.2 One United States canonist, in his book on declarations of nullity of marriage, written for the laity, has concluded:
The frequency of the heading “lack of discretion of judgment” and of other headings directly invo... more The frequency of the heading “lack of discretion of judgment” and of other headings directly involving psychopathology has increased steadily in recent years in causes of marriage nullity.1 At times, the increase has been so great that the socalled “psychological grounds” of nullity seem to have nearly replaced the other headings under which a person may accuse before the Church the nullity of his or her marriage.2 One United States canonist, in his book on declarations of nullity of marriage, written for the laity, has concluded:
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