What God Has Joined Together - The Annulment Crisis in American Catholicism

Informationen zum Autor Robert Vasoli is a retired Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. He is frequently consulted by the media and by laypersons on the issue of annulment. He lives in South Bend, Indiana. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Robert H Vasoli, Robert H USA Vasoli, Robert H. Vasoli, Robert H. (Associate Professor of Sociolog Vasoli, Robert H. Usa Vasoli, Vasoli Robert H.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.1998
• EAN: 9780195107647
• ISBN: 978-0-19-510764-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Partnership, sexuality; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Sociology: family & relationships, United States of America, USA, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Sociology: family and relationships, RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic / General