There doesn't seem to be much respite from Pope Francis and his gang of scandal-rousing cohorts. Evidently, Cardinal Kasper is up to his old tricks again, declaring that half of all marriages are invalid according to Pope Francis, something which has neither been confirmed or denied as having been said.
"In 1969, the Church granted 338 annulments in the US; in 1974, the number was 28,918; and in the 1990s roughly 40,000 per year were granted." This we are told in a piece on why we need more canon lawyers.