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Power to Dissolve: Lawyers and Marriages in the Courts of the Roman Curia [Hardcover]

John T. Noonan Jr. (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 489 pages
  • Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; 1st edition (June 1972)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0674695755
  • ISBN-13: 978-0674695757
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,773,515 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A landmark study of Catholic marriage and annulments., December 8, 1997
This review is from: Power to Dissolve: Lawyers and Marriages in the Courts of the Roman Curia (Hardcover)
John Noonan, now a prominent judge on the federal Circuit Court of Appeals, was also for many years a respected scholar of canon law history. This work, based on Noonan's direct study of Vatican archives, caused quite stir upon its publication in 1972, by painting an accurate, if not entirely flattering, picture of the complex canonical process by which, prior to the Second Vatican Council, Catholic marriage cases were adjudicated. The work is respectful of canonical tradition and, in my opinion, basically wanted only to see a franker admission by some canonical judges that adjudicating marriage cases is as much an art as it is a science.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating and careful study, April 29, 2000
This review is from: Power to Dissolve: Lawyers and Marriages in the Courts of the Roman Curia (Hardcover)
I read 55 books in 1973 and this volume on marriage cases in Church courts was the best of the 55. It carefully examines 6 marriage cases. Reading this book made me wish I were a canon lawyer!
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