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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810102103321

Autore

Vasoli Robert H

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998

ISBN

0-19-774185-1

1-280-52898-2

0-19-802669-2

1-4294-0434-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 252 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

262.9/4

Soggetti

Marriage - Annulment (Canon law)

Marriage - Annulment - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1998.

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 an increase in the number of Catholic marriage annulments in the USA. Pathbreaking and provocative, this book explores how and why the American system has become geared to the mass-production of annulments.