From a different Christian perspective (and with NO intention of getting embroiled in RC debates over your dogma, this Pope or a Cardinal's fancy robes) I'd like to pose a question. My understanding is that the requirement of a sacramental "church" wedding as obligatory for RC couples does not pre-date Trent. Before then, for a MILLENNIUM  in fact most of the barely literate proles never had a priest preside over a wedding even if it was recorded in a register. Everyone west of Orthodox and Muslim lands was Catholic then (pre-Reformation). So, did they need a church annulment to remarry, or was that only something that worried aristocrats and royals who had married before a priest?