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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451670603321

Autore

Vasoli Robert H

Titolo

What God has joined together [[electronic resource] ] : the annulment crisis in American Catholicism / / Robert H. Vasoli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998

ISBN

1-280-52898-2

0-19-802669-2

1-4294-0434-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

262.9/4

Soggetti

Marriage - Annulment (Canon law)

Marriage - Annulment - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-247) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1. Profaning Marriage; 2. Winds of Change; 3. Building on the Groundwork; 4. The New Jurisprudence; 5. Psychologizing Annulment; 6. Systemic Abuse of Psychology; 7. Promoting the Blueprint; 8. Screening and Docketing Cases; 9. Tribunal Personnel; 10. Respondents and the Right of Defense; 11. Appellate Review; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

Since Vatican II, there has been a sizeable increase in the number of Catholic marriage annulments in the USA - previously a rarity. This text offers a study of this annulment ""American-style"", exploring how and why the American system has become geared to the mass-production of annulments.