The Catholic Lawyer Volume 26 Number 1 Volume 26, Winter 1980, Number 1 Article 3 Intolerable Marriage Situations Revisited James H. Provost Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/tcl Part of the Catholic Studies Commons This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at St. John's Law Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Catholic Lawyer by an authorized editor of St. John's Law Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. INTOLERABLE MARRIAGE SITUATIONS REVISITEDt JAMES H. PROVOST* It has been ten years since The Jurist published the results of a Ca- non Law Society of America [C.L.S.A.] study into "immediate internal forum solutions for deserving persons involved in canonically insoluble marriage cases."' The ad-hoc committee recommended the Society "let the matter rest" at least for the following year, and keep a close watch on related developments. There have been a number of related developments in the decade since that publication. It is time to review what has taken place. Indeed, so much has taken place that this study will be limited primarily to the canonical dimensions of this complex matter.2 THE C.L.S.A. REPORT 1. Background The situation of divorced and remarried Catholics received renewed attention in 1965 as a result of Archbishop Zoughbi's intervention during the fourth session on the Second Vatican Council.' He raised the possibil- t This article is reprinted with permission from 40 THE JURIST 141 (1980). * The Catholic University of America.