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

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Summary: The finest work I have found in my research.
Review: Incredible! Intelligent--Brilliant! I literally couldn't stop reading this book. As a student of Canon Law, I was curious about why 98% of those Americans who petitioned for annulments in 1997 were granted them as this seems to justify contentions that "annulment" is merely the Catholic name for "divorce". Vasoli tackles such hard questions honestly with factual basis--and after trying to gain an understanding of the situation via my univ. law and theology professors, such straightforward analysis on the annulment issue is very rare.

Also, Vasoli does it in such a way that I read 213 pages in one sitting. He provides great documentation/annotations, and very valuable statistics. I cannot recommend it enough!