"This Tribunal has never rejected a person’s petition because he or she has been unable to pay the entire amount or even a portion of it." "
Actually it almost $1000 with the additional fees to process the paperwork.  And that is alot of money for most people in Chicago, even those who can afford it.  It might mean that a child cannot attend an extracurricular activity or the family cannot go on vacation.  This is all because of some silly paperwork.

"You are also mistaken in your claim annulment reforms haven't helped...from those with whom I've spoken, priest and lay, it has"
And I've read and heard the same complaints after the #falsemercy "reforms" as I've heard before.  If this was helping people there would be one story about an annulment that would have taken 2 years only taking 6 months.  Instead, I am reading the same old complaints about the paperwork, crabby, unfeeling bureaucrats, and time consuming process.

And your take on this is biased.