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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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A landmark study of Catholic marriage and annulments.,
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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A fascinating and careful study,
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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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Power to Dissolve: Lawyers and Marriages in the Courts of the Roman Curia by John Thomas Noonan (Hardcover - June 1972)
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