What God has joined together :: the annulment crisis in American Catholicism /

Catholicism teaches that marriage is for life, forbidding divorced Catholics to remarry. Annulment is the only way around this prohibition, but until recently annulments were extremely rare. Since Vatican II, however, there has been an astonishing increase in the number of annulments in the USA. Thi...

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1. Verfasser: Vasoli, Robert H.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998.
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Zusammenfassung:Catholicism teaches that marriage is for life, forbidding divorced Catholics to remarry. Annulment is the only way around this prohibition, but until recently annulments were extremely rare. Since Vatican II, however, there has been an astonishing increase in the number of annulments in the USA. This book offers a detailed study of annulment "American-style", exploring how and why the American system became geared to the mass-production of annulments.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 252 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-247) and index.
ISBN:1429404345
9781429404341
1280528982
9781280528989
0198026692
9780198026693