AN AWKWARD DILEMMA.
• ; FOR THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. Bs Tekifwl—Prow Asscielation-Cnnyrisht "Times" —Sydney "Sun" Special Cables, (β-oc. January 6, 7.13 p.m.^ Cadiz, January 5.' A military courl-martinl has sentenced .Colonel Labrador, who is of Protestant faith, to six months' imprisonment for refusing ,to attend Mass before holding a court-martial, of which he himself had previously boon appointed president. The sentence will place the ]|»man Catholic Church in an awkward dilemma, being a dired violation of tiiat Church's precept which forbids the celebration" of Mass in l-he presence of a mm-Roman Catholic, or of an ex-com-municated person. .-,-.■. : - '. ;
The latter part of the above cable message is not in accordance with foot. The Ifev. Father Hick=on, S.M., to whom ttwi point was referred to !;ist cvcnin;. Said that (hero was no rule of the Clhimli which forhade the aflemlatu'c of nonBoitiaii Catholics at its religions functions. Anyono could nlteiiil a Eomnn Catholic Mass. '■ The late Kinjj Edward VII frequently art ended Mass when on tbc Continent! With regard to the vcfcrento to-the exclusion of px-comnuuii-cated persons from Mass, -that was a reminiscence of the Dark A.jjes.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1951, 7 January 1914, Page 5
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184AN AWKWARD DILEMMA. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1951, 7 January 1914, Page 5
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