Monsignor Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer at a briefing on Pope Francis' new Motu Proprio on the reform of canonical procedure for marriage annulment at the Vatican Press Office on September 8, 2015.

Daniel Ibanez
Cardinal Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer at a briefing on Pope Francis' new Motu Proprio on the reform of canonical procedure for marriage annulment at the Vatican Press Office on September 8, 2015.

The statement, drafted at the University of Münster, described the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s clarification as lacking “theological depth, hermeneutical understanding, and explanatory rigor.”