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Vatican's Team of 1983 Canon Law Reviewers, Cardinal Egan


The Permanence of Marriage and the Mentality of Divorce

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Bibliography

Egan, The Most Reverend Edward M. "Chapter 14 The Mentality of Divorce." Smith 221-235.

Smith, Russell E, ed. Trust the Truth: A symposium on the Twentieth Anniversary of the Encyclical Humanae Vitae. Princeton, NJ: Sponsored by the Roman Atheneum Foundation and the Aquinas Institute; 1988 at the Pope John Center, Princeton University, 1991

Mary's Advocates Commentary
In 1982,  Edward Cardinal Egan was one of six canonists who reviewed the new Code of Canon Law with His Holiness, Pope John Paul II, before its promulgation in 1983.  Cardinal Egan, originally from Chicago, completed his seminary studies at the Pontifical North American College in Vatican City and was ordained in 1957.  In 1958, he received a Licentiate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University.  In 1964, he earned a doctorate in Canon Law Summa Cum Laude from the Pontifical Gregorian University. From 1971 to 1985 he served in Rome as a judge of the Tribunal of the Sacred Roman Rota.  He was also a professor of Canon Law at the Pontifical Gregorian University.

It is hard to argue with Cardinal Egan's authoritative qualifications to explain canon law.  He both helped write it in 1983, and he served on the equivalent of the Supreme Court for the Catholic Church for fourteen years.  Any representatives of the Church, who believes one should get an annulment because one person was unhappy is blatantly contradicting Cardinal Egan. In 1988, Cardinal Egan participated in a symposium titled Trust the Truth: A symposium on the Twentieth Anniversary of the Encyclical Humanae Vitae. In his presentation was named "The Permanence of Marriage and the Mentality of Divorce.