This book sets out the Roman Catholic Churchs conflict between defending its belief in the sanctity and permanence of marriage, and ministering with compassion to those traumatised by the experience of marital breakdown. Timothy Buckley argues thatMoreThis book sets out the Roman Catholic Churchs conflict between defending its belief in the sanctity and permanence of marriage, and ministering with compassion to those traumatised by the experience of marital breakdown.
Timothy Buckley argues that the theology of the bond of marriage is responsible for an impasse which often limits the Churchs official solutions to the granting of annulments. By tracing the history of Church teaching on the z bond of marriage, he concludes that the present discipline is based on disputable theology, and he proposes a way forward.