This reliable, easy-to-use reference work is an entirely up-to-date clarification of the present canons on marriage according to the New Code of Canon Law (1983). It includes all the latest legislation, pronouncements and decisions from Rome as well as frequent references to American and Canadian jurisprudence and the current Oriental Code. Several appendices reproduce the most important supplementary documents to have come out in the last several years and these, along with an extensive Index, further enhance the value of this very practical edition. Pastors and their associates in the ministry, deacons, teachers and seminarians as well as lawyers and married couples themselves will welcome this badly needed contribution to the sanctity and dignity of the sacrament of matrimony. It may well be one of the most helpful titles in the average parish library.