ESSENTIALLY SACKED.
MARRIAGE TO CATHOLICS, s AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT. ' MIXED MARRIAGES CONDEMNED. By Telegraph—Pr«js Association—Ooprrlxht ; ' ■ Adelaide, January 29. Archbishop O'Reilly has mado an official Statement regarding tho Roman Catholic'marriage law.. His Church, he said, looked upon divorce, from whatever cause, as absolutely unlawful. Marriago to Catholics was essentially sacred. •Tho civil law had nullified maiiy 'aws of the Church, and claimed tho right to lidili/y the contract of marriage, but the Church held that the power over the Sicriimeht of Marriage was inalienably her ortni.-■ The No Temore decree was merely an assertion of the right which ths Church had always claimed. A. Catholic must be married in the presence of a priest, otherwise iiwisno > marriage before God. The Church condemned mixed marriages. It the man whs a non-Catholic, the children of the mtirriago must be brought up as Catho•Jics..
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1971, 30 January 1914, Page 7
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140ESSENTIALLY SACKED. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1971, 30 January 1914, Page 7
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