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Podcast: The Luella Jonk Show
Episode: Episode #83: Brenda Prato on Beyond Romance: What the Church Really Asks Before You Say "I Do"
Description: In this episode, I sit down with Brenda Prato, a canon lawyer from Malta who serves as Defender of the Bond in the Archdiocese of Liverpool and as a collegial judge in the Archdiocese of Armagh. As a married mother of two pursuing her doctorate in canon law at KU Leuven, Brenda brings both professional expertise and deeply personal insight to one of the Church's most misunderstood processes: marriage annulments.I'll walk you through:✅ What consent actually means in marriage—and why it's so much more than romance✅ The difference between covenant and contra...