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What God has joined together : the annulment crisis in American Catholicism / Robert H. Vasoli.
Van Pelt Library BX1939.M3 V38 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vasoli, Robert H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marriage--Annulment (Canon law)--Popular works.
- Marriage--Annulment (Canon law).
- Marriage--Annulment--United States--Popular works.
- Marriage--Annulment.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Popular works.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 252 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Summary:
- The United States is home to only six percent of the world's Catholics, but it now accounts for 75 percent of all Church annulments.This revealing look at annulment weaves painstaking analysis with a wealth of evidence to illuminate the degree to which the U.S. Catholic Church has gone its own way since Vatican II on what constitutes a valid marriage.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-247) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195107640
- OCLC:
- 37947467
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