What God Has Joined Together The Annulment Crisis in American Catholicism

Name: What God Has Joined Together The Annulment Crisis in American Catholicism
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ISBN: 9780195107647

ISBN-10: 0195107640

ISBN-13: 9780195107647

Edition: 1998

Authors: Robert H. Vasoli

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The recent controversy over Joe Kennedy's annulment gave only a glimpse of American Catholicism's open secret: that contrary to official Catholic doctrine, American churches grant annulments wholesale, freely declaring marriages nonexistent so that one or both partners can remarry in the church. The United States is home to only 6% of the world's Catholics, Robert Vasoli points out, but it now accounts for 75% of all Church annulments, two-thirds of which are granted on ostensibly psychological grounds. The real scandal, though, is not simply the numbers, but that Church marriage courts annul thousands of marriages that are actually valid according to Catholic teaching. Drawing on…

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List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/16/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.29" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Introduction



Profaning Marriage



Winds of Change



Building on the Groundwork



The New Jurisprudence



Psychologizing Annulment



Systemic Abuse of Psychology



Promoting the Blueprint



Screening and Docketing Cases



Tribunal Personnel



Respondents and the Right of Defense



Appellate Review


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index