Church divorces high in Poland

20th November 2009

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More Poles get church divorces that any other nation except Italians, according to a Vatican statistical year book.

Poles file an average of 3,500 petitions for annulment annually, and last year the number reached a record 10,000.

The main reason church divorces are so popular in Poland is down to a new cannon law, claims Dziennik, which allows a divorce to be granted if a court decides that one of the spouses is “emotionally immature’. ...

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