Vatican City, Jul 20, 2017 / 05:15 am. Fr. Pierangelo Pietracatella and Fr. Hans-Peter Fischer are the newest members of the Roman Rota, and mark the latest in a string of appointments Pope ...

The Roman Rota is one of the three courts of the Holy See, along with the Apostolic Penitentiary and the Apostolic Signatura. Among the Rota’s primary responsibilities is considering appeals in ...

Vatican City, Jan 29, 2018 / 11:30 am. In a speech to the Roman Rota Monday, Pope Francis said there is a need to develop better means of forming the consciences of the faithful in the Church ...

Francis reformed the process for annulments in 2015, empowering diocesan bishops to act as judges to nullify marriages, eliminating the requirement that the Roman Rota sign off with its own sentence.

Declarations of Nullity. The Sacred Roman Rota is 700 years old and probably takes its name from the circular hall in which its priestly judges, who are called auditors, used to convene.

The Roman Rota is one of the three courts of the Holy See, along with the Apostolic Penitentiary and the Apostolic Signatura. Among the Rota’s primary responsibilities is considering appeals in ...

Pope Francis says the Catholic Church must be a support system for engaged couples as they prepare for the lifelong sacrament of marriage.

Today, the Cancelleria palazzo houses three of the Vatican’s most important courts: the Roman Rota, which decides marriage annulments; the Apostolic Signatura, ...

Pope Francis welcomes Monsignor Pio Vito Pinto, Dean of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota of the College of Prelates Auditors of the Roman Rota on the occasion of their meeting, at the Vatican ...